MERGER
KIVI
O Grace!
You dissolve and vanish
A cool patch of light into the clear sky.
Is it due to the intensity–
Or cruelty–
Of my gaze?
– Questioned the Sun.
I don’t vanish I don’t melt
But unseen ethereal
I merge into you
unknown by you
– Answered the chaste dew-drop
– Translated from
Tamil by Bala