The allegation too will die

fair lady of my native,

Seven years my elder,

Whose marriage I attended

With my lustful eyes

Upon her fair, velvet skin

When I was barely thirteen,

Was dead a few days back

At her seventy five,

Ailing from cancer at Madurai.

With her will die the allegation

That she had her father in law in bed,

With her helpless meek husband.

23.10.2009