A vivid memory. Crying,
Crying at the railings of the school,
On my very first day.
My mother leaving me in an alien place
With strange child-people, so many!
This was the first time
I was away from my mother.
I can recall, when age four,
The gut-wrenching,
The non-understanding,
The confusion and alienation,
Who could describe it adequately in words?
Like a pet dog separated from
The family who had adopted it,
It can only feel the pain, nothing else.
How can a being only in the world
A short time after being expelled so
Dramatically and painfully
(Does the baby feel pain
When born which is not memorised?)
From the womb
Make sense of emotion and reason?
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem