THE FALLEN YOGI
Kavisamraat
VISWANATHA
SATYANARAYANA
From
the heights of divine ecstasy
Which
is beyond words
I
jumped into the world of words
Tempted
by the delicacy of the soft word
And–here
I am–a poet!
From
the heights of divine ecstasy
Ruled
by the Lord of inaction
I
jumped into the world of words
With
an insatiable thirst for beauty
And–here
I am–a poet!
From
the heights of divine ecstasy
Where
I ought to think of God alone
I
equated Him with the spoken word
And
fell into the world of words
Taking
the form of a poet!
From
the heights of divine ecstasy
Which
is far beyond the mundane world
I
fell down and became a poet
As
I went on thinking about this world.
–Translated
from Telugu by
Dr SANKARA
SREERAMA RAO