MAP, HIS CREATION : RAJASTHANI POEM BY MOHAN ALOK: ENGLISH TRANSVERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 MOHAN ALOK

MAP

God had registered with him

A map of this Earth

That map depicted 

Many trees in vicinity of

My house.

 

Many years passed by

People felled those trees

And after shedding them down

Distributed among themselves.

 

Following felling of trees

In account of God 

This Planet was deducted.

 

Now, investigations have begun

Yesterday

An employee of God approached me

I asked him

What brings you here?

 

Though, he remained silent

Due to lack of link-language

But, it seems to me

That poor fellow is

Probing for the Earth

Holding in his hands

That original map of the Earth.

 

Rajni Chhabra

Multi-lingual Poetess & Polyglot

 

HIS CREATION : MOHAN ALOK

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He creates 

And when he creates

Then nothing remains

To be added into 

That creation

May be

That creation

Seems to us incomplete

And for completing it

In your mind

Any curiosity 

Keeps on arising

May be

You try to match it

With some other creation

And like this

Keep on bothering yourself

Unnecessarily

Without any reason whatsoever

But that creation

Howsoever it is

Whatsoever it is

Is perfect in itself

Why is is requisite 

That it should be similar to

Some other creation.