Lost to the Reach
“KIVI”
In vain your eyes strain
And the hearts throb in desire
Desire it no more.
Leave it as lost
Though close to the grasp
It eludes the reach,
Though counselled
a thousand times
The mind failed to be
The fox that
turned its back to the grapes.
Today and day before too
the mind murmurs
What eludes your reach
is not the fruit
but – a seed that could sprout.
–Translated from Tamil by Bala