I Am A Wayfarer, A Wayfarer (Sometimes By The Volga, Sometimes By The Mississippi) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I am a wayfarer,
I am a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Whom saw you by the Volga,
The Volga
Going,
I am a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you by the Danube,
The Danube,
I a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you
Going,
Going and passing by,
Passing by
The Rhine,
The Rhine,
Sometimes,
Sometimes by the Nile,
The Nile going,
Going, passing by,
I am a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Sometimes, sometimes by
The Congo,
The Congo River
I, I with the memories,
Memories of mine,
Sometimes, sometimes by
The Niger,
The Niger flowing.

A wayfarer,
A farer
Who has none,
None
But his emotions and feelings
His own,
One,
One who is alone,
Alone in life,
One,
One who is alone,
Alone
On the way of life,
Treading,
Treading it alone,
Bereft,
Bereft of home,
Home and settlement,
Everything but
Shattered,
Shattered and lost,
Lost and broken,
I am a vagabond,
A vagabond,
I am a gipsy,
A wandering gipsy,
A wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you by the banks,
The banks of the Rhine,
The Rhine,
The Volga,
The Volga and the Mississippi,
The Danube, Danube.

I am a wayfarer,
A wayfarer,
I am a wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you loitering,
Loitering and frolicking
By the Mississippi,
The Mississippi river,
I am the wayfarer,
The wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you by the Missouri river,
The Missouri,
The Rio Grande,
Passing,
Passing with
Bags dragging and pulling
And going,
I am the wayfarer,
The wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you by the Amazon,
The Amazon
Singing,
Singing the song of life,
By, by the Sao Francisco river,
The Francisco river,
Singing,
Singing the song of life
Full of joys and sorrows,
Sometimes laughed I,
Laughed I,
Sometimes wept I, wept I
Remembering
And wiping out,
Wiping the tears myself,
Myself.

A farer,
I am a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Whom found you,
Found you
Loitering,
Loitering and passing by,
Passing by
The banks,
The banks of the Madeira,
The Madeira river
Weeping,
Weeping and wiping out the tears,
The tears flowing,
Flowing down the cheeks
And I wiping,
Wiping them out
And going,
Going my way,
My way,
A wayfarer,
A wayfarer I
Sitting,
Sitting by the Magdalena,
The Magdalena river
And thinking,
Thinking about
The joys and sorrows,
Joys and sorrows of life,
Lived, re-lived and revisited
The joys,
Joys of,
The sorrows,
Sorrows of life.

I, I a traveller,
I, I a tourist,
I, I a passer-by,
A passer-by,
A wayfarer, a wayfarer
Whom saw you,
Saw you by,
By the banks of Darling,
The Darling river,
I, I going,
Going by,
I standing, standing
By, by the banks,
The banks of the Murray,
The Murray river,
Under the bivouac,
The bivouac,
Under the canopy,
The canopy of the skies,
The skies,
I a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Camped,
Camped and tented,
Tented under
Watching,
Watching the water,
Waters of the vast river
Aghast and aback
On the bank of life,
I a wayfarer,
A wayfarer of life.

I a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Sometimes you see
By the Mekong,
The Mekong river,
Sometimes,
Sometimes by the Yangtze,
The Yangtze river
Hearing the dialects,
Dialects and speeches of man,
Marking the behavior,
Food, habit, manner,
Culture and climate,
I, I by the Indus,
The Indus river,
I a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Sometimes,
Sometimes whom see you,
See you by the Yellow,
The Yellow river,
The Oxus,
The Oxus passing,
Passing and going,
By the Ural,
The Ural and the Tigris,
The Ganga and the Brahmaputra,
I a wayfarer,
A wayfarer
Passing,
Passing and going,
Going and singing,
Singing the song of life,
Now say you,
Say you,
Where is my home,
Where my settlement?