The Poetic Justice

As legend has it, there lived Bai Balkhash, a rich man In the North regions of the then Soviet Kazakhstan Had a beautiful daughter Ili who was without her Smiley So Balkhash held a feast with a contest to win Ili. Ili, loved a shepherd called Karatal and easily managed For Karatal to win the contest of the grooms staged But Karatal followed the ancient tradition of love stories Wherein the fathers were supposed to oppose the realities. Now the lovers had no option but to run away and marry And the angry father had no options to go contrary So he turned them into rivers and himself a lake between. Made himself a laughing stock taking water from rivers twin. Today’s reality is Kazakhstan and China using Ili’s water Poetic justice done, the lake drying, two rivers dying forever. ******** Burlesque Form ====================================== Dr. Ram Mehta 7th place win in: Contest: Beloved Poem by Giorgio Veneto -