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It does happen... Now and then earth loses all friends Alone you leave for the railway bridge As shadows alight in the fading twilight The river too lies motionless And in aloneness you meet your face! An old soul must have desired Even the dim light of the railyard Now I idolize paradise O, humankind, once in oblivious flash You too did smile, saying "Living is an elegy of broken dreams!" Do you not reminisce that false fetish For grit and jubilant feast Holding sabre in arrogant fist? And those ravenous eyes' lust For gold nuggets and silver dust For seat of power or carnal desire! Today you have walked away from it all On the railway bridge at nightfall As the sun drowns in blood Whose lonesome laugh is heard? Whose wailing soliloquy pierces the air? "Relief is what I desire!" (Our sincere thanks to Anupam Banerji abanerji@golden.net. The copyright of the original poem is with Sunil Gangopadhyay. Anupam holds the copyright for this translation.) |
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