In a tell-tale story form
The matter of debate
Years after
When you are no more
Your Padmavat,
Padmawat
Dealing with
Rani Padmavati, Alauddin Khilji and Ratan Singha.
A Rajput queen,
A Muslim invader
And a yearning so different.
How to tell,
Tell it,
Jayasi?
Rani Padmavati a Rajput princess
Of the kattar Rajputs
While on the other Alauddin a Muhammadan invader
After Padmavati?
How can it be, how can it be,
Jayasi,
Return you with the parrot
Telling a story?
Let Alauddin too return
As the case is nothing different
From that of Dr.Faustus and Othello.