Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
I come from a far-away planet where a thousand suns rise and set. In the unending days
in light
during the eternal dance of life
one day you came
and called
I came away with you instantly. To earth,
to the house in the city
where you reside.
I have not seen the dark
I discern through your words
the stars, cool moons, sleep.
I have not known the social conventions observed by humans on land:
passive violence –
love’s unintelligible complexity
nature that gets caught and blends in the eye that blinks blinded by the light…
forced sex!
I dance instinctively, incessantly oh look
there is only one sun in the sky it descends
light diminishes it turns cold
Trapped in the night that nurtures you terrified, every day
I die of fear.
NOTE
Translated from the original, ‘Sandarshanam’.
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