Sunday, March 18, 2007

Poem in English

Alas!
It's on either side of the same hour
that we fell dead
Then, moumting the elephant dark,
I to hell
Riding the sun's chariot,
you to heaven
In hell
I was to shut up souls in the cells
In heaven
you were to sweep up souls
If we were together
we could have at least caught
glimses of each other
amid our chores
Alas!
translated from Malayalam by Rizhio Raj