ABOU BEN ADHEM 

   

   ABOU BEN ADHEM (MAY HIS TRIBE DECREASE!)

AWOKE ONE NIGHT BY A GREAT BLOW OF BREEZE

AND SAW WITHIN THE LIGHT OF A TUBE IN HIS ROOM,

WHICH HE DID NOT PUT OFF BECAUSE THE BRIGHTNESS WAS WEAK; OF THE MOON!

AN ANGEL WRITING IN A BOOK,

EXCEEDING BREEZE HAD MADE ABOU WANT TO COOK.

AND TO THE PRESENCE IN THE ROOM HE SAID:

"WHAT EATEST THOU?"- THE VISION RAISED ITS HEAD,

AND WITH A LOOK MADE OF ALL SWEET ACCORD,

ANSWERED,"COKE, FRIES AND ALSO A BURGER OF MAC COD!

SOME ICE CREAM TOO? ASKED ABOU. NAY, NOT SO, REPLIED THE ANGEL.

ABOU SPOKE MORE LOW.

BUT CHEERILY STIIL; AND SAID,"I PRAY THEE, THEN,

AT LEAST HAVE A DESERT THAT'S CALLED THE "SAL DEN"

THE ANGEL ATE AND VANISHED. THE NEXT NIGHT,

IT CAME WITH A GREAT WAKENING LIGHT;

AND WITH RAGING ANGER TOLD ABOU THAT IT'S STOMACH PAINED 

AND BY SERVING POISONED FOOD NOTHING WAS GAINED!

                 -TANISHA GHORPADE