PRETENCE

              Pretence

                   Hark!

What the priest speaks in the mosque

O, yes he talks about a thief

Who had betrayed his own chief

The way the priest spoke of hell

About a deep, horrible well

And the lessons which he taught

Moved everyone’s heart

The emotional speech of the priest

Brought tears even to the eyes of beast

In the mosque were heard only cries

And deep sobs and sighs

Everyone seemed afraid of God

Invocated Him with broken heart

To pardon their sins of the past

Very soon and very fast

Coming out from the mosque

The priest told his colleague

I have done a big task

But this must not you leak

I have stolen a farmer’s gold box

And his young healthy ox

His colleague stared at him

You always say ‘don’t sin’

But you yourself are a thief

A deity man putting others in grief

Don’t open your mouth

Lest I shall send you to the south

The priest held his throat

Don’t make thyself a scapegoat

The villagers love and trust me

It will prove fruitful for me and thee

We will be priests in the day lights

And total beasts during the nights

The farmer to whom I stole the ox

And a loaded gold box

Came to me with his grief

Told me to curse the thief

I cursed the thief

And pretended to share his grief

Hypocrisy, lie and pretence

For us have a great importance

If stronger we are in pretence

The people will surely trust us

And for stealing an ox and a box

No need to wear the skin of fox

We will speak high in the mosque

And will freely do our task

As much as we can

Without any hurdle and without any ban

His colleague agreed with him

And started to help in the sin

Of theft and pretence

In the priest’s presence

One night breaking into a house

The priest’s colleague frightened by a mouse

Cried and yelled aloud

And thus gathered a large crowd

The crowd captured the colleague

And handed him over to the police

The colleague mentioned the name of the priest

Who was to invited to the police feast

The angry villagers shaved his beard and hair

And tied him to a chair

People came from different parts of village

To see the animal in the a cage