Let Us Walk Poem by Prayag Saikia

LET US WALK

Life likes to present
Supernatural and heavenly incidents

Absurdity is a pet subject of life

Therefore
The earth
That rotates around the sun
Playing a game of light and shadows
Does not allow the human beings to forget
About the speed of Rohitaswa

Move on- become the eternal truth with faith

We walk
Here we sense freedom
From holiness and ailments

Whether it be
King Herod
Or
King Kansa
Everywhere
There is some similarity in the absurdity
Here life depicts
Super-naturality and heavenliness
Blossomed in the rhymes of rotation

Please pour some nectar on the bitter bowl of reality
Please release the first martyr of philosophy
From the leaden feet induced by hemlock

Let us walk
It is the culmination of
Holiness and pain

Rohitaswa: Son of King Harishchandra, who was advised by Devraj Indra to keep on moving to get rid of a curse that caused a disease in him.

(Translated from Original Assamese by Bibekananda Choudhury)