MISCELLANEA

COME BACK, MY MUSE!

COME BACK, MY MUSE!

[An invocation to the lost muse to return]



O my muse where have you gone?
Why, me, have you forsaken?
I and my pen are both by
Your desertion so shaken!

My friend, throughout night and day,
You were constantly with me.
I thought one day, through you, I
Would achieve my destiny.

I thought my destiny lay
In being a great writer. But
You have departed and my
Writing shop is all but shut.

Come, my muse, come back and have
Mercy on a writer’s soul.
I would give you all I have
Save my pen, paper, ink-bowl!


* Written in 7-7-7-7, abcb format.


M C Gupta

21 January 2005