Maya: Sandy-Shore Of Farewell Poem by Kanishka SricharanPratap

On the sandy-shoreof farewell
In the dense fog
Losing my path
I shall stumble into the past,

Tearing out
A few pages of life
I shall offer to you
Be it thorn or flower!
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I don't know
Who I am!
I don't know
Who you are!

I play the enchanting flute
Who am I?

You listen
Only listen
Tell me, who you are?
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Sailor of which river
Am I?
Sailor of which river?

In the mid...
Middle of the sea
With you
I'm lost... I'm lost!
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You remove hair
That has turned grey
Use hair-dye,

Now and then
It is heard...
Heard from the other world
Whose call is it?
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In the evening of life
The evening-wick
You go on burning,

With a little light
With a little fragrance
You weave
Net of Illusion!
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In the drizzling cloud
In your curly hair
Dropping pearls,

I was lost first
Today I search
At the moment of departure.
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Leaping over the past
Horizon of memory
Come once
With love-lore,

In the dusk
I wipe
Your rain-drenched hair!
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Only this much I desire
In the next life
When I come to the earth,

Blooming at least once
As 'Rajanigandha'
I shall decorate your hair.
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Peeping from the past
Through clouds
Whose moon-face is this!

At the end of the night
Of this life
Tell, O dear, tell?
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A drop of dew
On grass leaf
I may drop any moment,

Small thing it is
Yet, till today
I haven't told You!
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Secret tale of ages
Are written
On the Blue-sapphire
Eye of yours,

Where is with me
Spring of flowers?
We met
On such a time!
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"I belong to none
None belongs to me! "
O really
You are right!

Stupid I am
Lost my entity
In what illusion?
Think you to be mine?
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On the islet of river Luna
Was lost childhood,

On the fast flow of Luna
Was drowned youth,

On the shore of this Luna
Our body
Will mingle with clay!
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Not only on forehead
I have smeared on mind
Again on heart
On each part of your body
For ages
With the power of Yoga,

Don't forget
Dearest to my heart!
All the vermilion
Found in world!
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How much I gave
How much I got
At departing moment
I observe today,

In addition subtraction
In multiplication division
Zero
Only illusion!
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Fire at birth-place
Fire at wedding
You are fire!

Remains only
To be enjoyed
Fire at funeral!
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Listen...
I have made
The enchanting flute
With my bone,

For ages to come
It'll play tune
In your name
In this bank
Or that bank of the river!
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May it not be,
But if you go
Before me
To be the star of the sky,

From the branch
Of this Champak tree
I shall stare and stare
For a few days!
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Someday I will not exist
In this world
I will mingle
With five elements,

I know... I know
You are Maya
The world is Maya
I will transcend Maya.
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Wipe not
Wash not
Break not and stay
You shall exist
You, Virtuous Lady,

My last desire is:
Vermilion
Lac dye
And bangle
Don't throw
After my death.
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When soul leaves body
Don't put fire to it
Float it on current,

Perhaps some lover
May cross the river
On my back!
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Not with petals of lotus
When clay-body
Mingles with clay,

You shall draw a line
With nail
On the bank of river Luna
Write 'You' once.
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Came alone
Shall go alone
In the middle
Meet for a moment,

In the next birth
I shall come alone
You shall come alone too.
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Light up the evening lamp
At the root of holy Basil
Fall down as tears,

Being nothing in nothingness
I shall revolve
And your call hear!
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Tell me when
In which life
You'll pick up
My life's essence
From five elements?

In the ever fresh lotus
Of your womb
When will you implant me
As a foetus?
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This is my last word
This is my last song
Write on the tomb,

Near the tomb
If blooms grass-flower
You pluck...
Pluck it with love!
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If meteor falls
I will be there,

Turning into ash
I'll wash your feet.
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I pluck
A flower someday
You rebuked me,

The last love-flower
Of soul
Take
I offer to you.


Translated from Odia by:
Tarun Kumar Sahu