Poem
Gagan Gill
Just For a Day
Just for a dayShe won’t think
of you
And the fish will forget
Their way about water
The sun will be suspended
Burning helpless in the orbit
The umbilical chord will coil and strangle
Time’s own neck
Just for a day
She, oblivious
will place her lamp
between the sun and the moon
And the seven sages in the sky
Will get worried
Letters will fly away
Falling off the scripts
Creatures will forget their faces
And no mirrors will be there
Just for a day
You will go
Into an ethereal mist
For a moment
And darkness will befall
The whole of universe
Lava will gather
In the guts of earth
For miles
snails will burn
inside their shells
In just a day’s
oblivion
her body will turn blue
from its own bite
© Translation: 2006, K.Satchidanandan and Gagan Gill
JUST FOR A DAY
© 1998, Gagan Gill
From: Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin
Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi
From: Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin
Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi
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Just For a Day
Just for a dayShe won’t think
of you
And the fish will forget
Their way about water
The sun will be suspended
Burning helpless in the orbit
The umbilical chord will coil and strangle
Time’s own neck
Just for a day
She, oblivious
will place her lamp
between the sun and the moon
And the seven sages in the sky
Will get worried
Letters will fly away
Falling off the scripts
Creatures will forget their faces
And no mirrors will be there
Just for a day
You will go
Into an ethereal mist
For a moment
And darkness will befall
The whole of universe
Lava will gather
In the guts of earth
For miles
snails will burn
inside their shells
In just a day’s
oblivion
her body will turn blue
from its own bite
© 2006, K.Satchidanandan and Gagan Gill
From: Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin
From: Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin
Just For a Day
Just for a dayShe won’t think
of you
And the fish will forget
Their way about water
The sun will be suspended
Burning helpless in the orbit
The umbilical chord will coil and strangle
Time’s own neck
Just for a day
She, oblivious
will place her lamp
between the sun and the moon
And the seven sages in the sky
Will get worried
Letters will fly away
Falling off the scripts
Creatures will forget their faces
And no mirrors will be there
Just for a day
You will go
Into an ethereal mist
For a moment
And darkness will befall
The whole of universe
Lava will gather
In the guts of earth
For miles
snails will burn
inside their shells
In just a day’s
oblivion
her body will turn blue
from its own bite
© 2006, K.Satchidanandan and Gagan Gill
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