Eklavya, Your Gurudakshina (Teacher's Day Celebration) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Eklavya,
Say you,
How to celebrate
Teacher's Day,
Eklavya,
How,
How to
Celebrate it?

Tears were in your eyes,
In your
Eyes,
Falling,
Falling out of ananda,
Ananda, delight
As well as from sorrow
Of neglect?

Eklavya,
Eklavya,
Say you,
Say you about
Your pain,
Pain,
Sorrow,
Sorrow
Which but struck you?

Drona
Stood before,
Saw you excelling Arjuna,
Stood and asked,
Asked for your thumb
As gurudakshina,
As his gurudakshina
And you cut it,
Cut it the thumb to
Give to,
Give to him?

O Eklavya,
Eklavya,
Say,
Say you,
Why, why did you,
Did you cut off
The thumb,
O innocent Kol, Bheel boy
Poor and submissive?