Tale of sorrow





Oriental romance or a tragic tale
Love across forbidden boundaries
East melted in West on clashing divides
A bouquet of prejudice, racism and fear
Roses of fusion and thorns of hybridity
Rubbed out from Victorian History books

A fiery, passionate and stunning lass
Ten and five she married the man of her desires
Defied conventions and broke the barriers
Of religion, race and culture
Oh! Saddest life Khair-Un-Nissa had
Widow at nineteen, wailed for her honeys

Lost her Sahib Begum and Sahib Allum
They were now White Mughals, Kitty and William
Love lost and found in her quest 
Beloved wife of James Kirkpatrick
Rejected lover of Henry Russel
A cracked heart rested in unrest.






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