Indian Princess Picks Lover out from Gods

Thank God we cast

A spot of shadow in our lives,

Said the Mahabharata bride,

Facing five versions of her groom---

Your man himself plus four male gods,

Four dead-spit images,self-xeroxed in his shape---

Who recognised that heartbeat,

The man she'd have to part with

By the shadow at his hell. Gods don't go round

Casting shadow.Things we do and feel

(As a leader in The Independent

Put it afterwards)are incomplete,

Imperfect,therefore real.