Lost And Found by Ron Padgett. A Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

Manush apnay devtoN ko kho baitha hai.
Agar vo apni izzat kho baithay ga,
To styanash ho jaaey ga.

Ye main ne kaha tha.

-to be continued





Man has lost his gods.
If he loses his dignity,
it's all over.


I said that.

What did I mean?
First, that the belief
in divinity has almost
disappeared.

By dignity
I meant mutual
self-respect, the sense
that we have some right
to be here and that
there is value in it.
(Values are where
the gods went
when they died.)

My dog Susie doesn't seem
to have any values, but she does
have Pat and me, gods
she gets to play with and bark at.