Poetry at Sangam

SangamHouse

 










A MAN LIKE A CLOUD by Shankha Ghosh

(Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.)

There’s a man like a cloud who walks ahead
I think water may drop off him if he is stroked

There’s a man like a cloud who walks ahead
I think shadows may descend if I sit by his side

Will he give, or take? Is he the shelter, or its need?
There’s a man like a cloud who walks ahead

If I stand in front of him one day I too might
Turn into a cloud