When I will be no more, you will come to feel it, my love,
Who was I, what did I do for you,
How do you order me and do I the work at your command,
You like an officer ordering and I doing your work,
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To charge Oscar Wilde in this way and to convict
And put behind the bars,
Into the prison cell
As a prisoner
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Between one brother and another, I go it marking,
How the things are partitioned,
Not between one man and another,
But between one nation and the other.
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It is not that your political philosophy interests me,
Communism with humanism,
Movement to the U.S.S.R. and Mexico and China as for your training,
But your personal life,
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Michael, you had been as such that for your desire of being an Englishman,
An inner wish for English language and literature, culture and tradition
Took you too disown your own
And turned you
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May I take the liberty of knowing the White girls accompanying you,
Say, who are the maidens, the belles
Flanking you, Master,
I know them not
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O, who is here to tell me about Trailanga Swami,
The saint from Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh,
The Telegu sadhaka,
A devotee of Lord Shiva
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The red-mouthed, red-faced monkey talk I,
Seeing innocently,
Winking at,
But is not,
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The hanumans, Indian hanumans, long-long and tall,
White-haired but black-mouthed,
With a long tail
Jumping and going,
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Jayanta Mahapatra, as I have known him,
As I have read and understood him,
The professor of physics teaching physics in his classrooms
And writing poems in English as for hobby
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