Poem
Ashok Vajpeyi
AFTER THE END I
After the endwe will not stay silent
We will not quarrel again
we will seek again
break confines once again.
To the earth
water fire
and the air
we will say again
come, give us form
give us an image.
The one
that existed before
which Death mistakenly feels
has been erased forever.
After the end
we will not be done with –
here we will hover
around life –
spreading like a scent
like a breeze blowing
alive like a memory.
Finally
we will evade death
return again –
after the end
we will not stay silent.
© Translation: 2004, Vijay Munshi
From: Nowhere But There
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2004
From: Nowhere But There
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2004
AFTER THE END I
© 1990, Ashok Vajpeyi
From: Kahin Nahin Vahin
Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi
From: Kahin Nahin Vahin
Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi
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AFTER THE END I
After the endwe will not stay silent
We will not quarrel again
we will seek again
break confines once again.
To the earth
water fire
and the air
we will say again
come, give us form
give us an image.
The one
that existed before
which Death mistakenly feels
has been erased forever.
After the end
we will not be done with –
here we will hover
around life –
spreading like a scent
like a breeze blowing
alive like a memory.
Finally
we will evade death
return again –
after the end
we will not stay silent.
© 2004, Vijay Munshi
From: Nowhere But There
Publisher: 2004, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
From: Nowhere But There
Publisher: 2004, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
AFTER THE END I
After the endwe will not stay silent
We will not quarrel again
we will seek again
break confines once again.
To the earth
water fire
and the air
we will say again
come, give us form
give us an image.
The one
that existed before
which Death mistakenly feels
has been erased forever.
After the end
we will not be done with –
here we will hover
around life –
spreading like a scent
like a breeze blowing
alive like a memory.
Finally
we will evade death
return again –
after the end
we will not stay silent.
© 2004, Vijay Munshi
From: Nowhere But There
Publisher: 2004, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
From: Nowhere But There
Publisher: 2004, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
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