How have they debarred me negating my poetry?
You will startle to know how my friends have tried to debar me
From to be a poet,
How they have upped the ante?
Instead of that, I am struggling
And shall continue to.
You say it frankly who has supported me
Neither the Padshri nor the Padma Vibhusan awardee poets,
Nor the Sahiya Akademi awardees,
Nor the bluff masters of contemporary Indian English poetry,
I mean the bogus students after having got the theses from the guides,
After giving money,
Publishing them as the books of criticism
And the small editors asking the readers indirectly
To highlight their own poetry.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem