People's Democracy
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)No. 20
May 26,2002
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVI
No. 20 May 26,2002 |
Peer-e-Tasma-Pa
(Old Man with
Tied Legs)
Riding
my shoulders, someone chants
Bible
and Vedas and Qura’an
Flies
keep buzzing near my ear;
With
ears of mine so injured,
My
own voice how can I hear!
Rana
was a Hindu, Akbar a Mussalman;
Sanjay
is the first man so far
Who
invented TV in Hastinapur in B.C. age
And
showed to the blind king scenes of the war.
What
if man has landed on the moon!
No
progress it’s, for long time back
Someone
traveled from earth to sky
When
no comet was as yet seen,
No
spring of skills had there been.
These
and many other talks ignorant
Ride
my shoulders now and then.
My
height gets reduced night and day
Will
my head touch the feet of mine?
(Freehand
translation by Naresh Nadeem)
