FIRE
Dr Bhawani Shankar Nial
Translated by
Bankim Mund
It was not the fire
Of hunger
That hardly aware
Of how the day
Follows the night.
It was not the fire
Of greed for power
That breaks
Or restores the laws
Time and again;
That outlaws
The rules, regulations
Even the
legislature
And Parliament.
It was not my fire
Of allurements
That lures me
Sometimes something,
Even enticing me
In my oblivion towards
Desert,verdancy
Royal palace
And valley of famine.
It was not the fire
Beneath the belly
But something
That hardly differentiates
Time, day, month, space
Fortune, misfortune;
May be a conflagration
That can annhilate
All the materialistic pursuits :
Palace, empire
The rich, the poor
And their
ceaseless dream;
May be the inferno
That devours
Love, hatred
Even time:
The past, present
And future.
The fire… fire:
Ignnites
The inner world
And
The outer world.
Fire.. Fire… Fire
🎄🎄🎄
Sriradha
Kalahandi
Odisha, India
