The Rat

The homely rodent Multiplying abundant Grains n pulses Its teeth rehearses Clothes, jute, cotton Munching eatables rotten Fumbling upon traps Deceived by left-over craps The Pied-pipers pedigree The cats turn merry Hunting down alleys With hungry bellies Dear Stuart Little Solving puzzling riddle Humanized on the screen Demonized in the greens Humans fear to provoke Realizing potential havoc Carnivorous in its delight Can gobble man and manmade to fright Despite its monstrosity Let us be generous of faunas diversity A sacred figure but in Indian mythology Worshipped in Lord Ganeshas propinquity

Ankur