The Earth

Darkness devours here catching lights, The way a lizard devours mosquitoes Catching one after one with its tongue. Here terrorism swallows captured lives, The way demons in folk-tales Crunch a man's bones. Here distrust eats up catching hearts, Like a jackal eats up every bit Of an ill-burnt corpse on a pyre. By tearing all the graves of Mohenjo-daro And Mesopotamia, By kindling lamps of atomic bombs, Here the herds of wolves start dancing At the pompous Festival of Feast; They belch with satisfaction, Begin to brush their teeth, absorbed in fun. Here the dead men injured from bombs Cry out, 'Help! Help! ' Here the living men, eyes smeared with death And nightmare, enter like Pharaoh's mummy. Here the fine arts binding talismans on their necks Recite again and again the name of Satan. Here poems, like slaughtered wild pigeons, Flutter their wings on blood. Yet the Sun, as usual, illuminates all regions every day; Yet the Moon, as usual, deludes all sides with her beauty. Translation: 15 June,2017