THE DARKNESS

 

B. M. PARSWALE

 

I

 

All fair principles are going to be tied to slaughterer’s Peg

Snares of ideals are breathing their last possessing of gold coin of death

Like unsheltered poor cattles from famine

And the darkness is fleeing with hurricane speed

The courts, parliament houses are startling inside

With moving hands on the millions of years’ evolution

The utmost peaks of Pratibha are not seeming

I am extinguishing (myself) from all sides with the darkness

My frontal bridge tissues are crashing down having picked up.

If anybody has found the Sun just he may come here.

 

II

 

Peoples are going to be throwned from here to there Like carrying of the wood

Their chipping is going on, cutting is going on However they wish

By persons terrible than the vesuvius

The lively treasures of Men only are rooking of (And)

The timid Academics, directors of the Newest Orders

Are accepting the restraints only for luxrious gifts

And the darkness? The darkness is moving on Forward On the (wings) of Future

(which is) Tender, very tender

If anybody has found the Sun just He may come here.

 

III

 

The Sparks of words, Fire, Inquilab are outside

The language of New creation

There are many a great Fellows

Who are sewing a strong Form of their own

Due to fright of hitting a stroke to oneself

Fire a bullet at their own caravan

I have seen from the utmost height

Many Big ones accepting the award-titles

And friends! horses are only obstructed here

And the darkness is assaulting

At the nucleus of Humanity with fast speed

I am deceived constantly myself,

On the Screen, on the poster

If anybody has found the Sun just

He may come here.

(Translated from Marathi by V. P. THONTE)

 

 

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