List of Misfortunes of Pritha/Kunti

 

Her real father gave her away

As a charity

Her adopted father made her to

Sleep with a sage.

Her impotent husband wanted

Babies from her

Sex with three unknown strangers

Gave her three unique babies

Which along with two of

Her husband’s second wife

She mothered.

They were called the famous five

For a war they fought

For the land and the humiliation

 

At the same time

She fought a different war

In the silence

A god impregnated her in her precocious puberty

What was she supposed to do with her first born?

A mother helpless to even love her son

Abandonment came natural for her

She gave her first born to the river

A wound on her chest kept oozing the pus

Until it became a canker of her soul

 

Nothing cured her wound

Until she held the severed head

Of her first born to her bosom

Killed by her other son

At the end she was burnt alive

In a forest fire

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Arjuna’s dilemma

He doesn’t have a friend like Krishna

To teach him about what is right and wrong

While fighting the battle with loved ones

His own Kurukshetra

There are no cuts that ooze blood

No wounds that suppurate the skin

Not the memories but

Staggering internal conflict

Which oscillate every breathing minute

Taxes his brain

How can his loved ones understand a simple thing?

Like him, they can also be wrong

Alone

He wonders

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