LETTER BOX, INCESSANTLY: RAJASTHANI POEMS OF DUSHYANT: ENGLISH TRANSVERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 LETTER BOX, INCESSANTLY: RAJASTHANI POEMS OF DUSHYANT

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Letter- Box

This red box is silent

And silent is letter-box

Fixed outside my door

Now, nobody waits

Eagerly for letters

It had been a witness of

Auspicious and inauspicious events

Mourning and celebrations

Birth and demise

Mobile and e-mail have snatched away

Words landing in depths of heart

Cyber-café has grabbed

Hustle and bustle of post-offices

Now postmen doze 

And it seems

Letter-boxes are yawning

Words are entrapped by drought

And echoing are now

Formulas of Einstein

In accordance with ' E=mc'

For centuries around us.

Incessantly

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I am neither on this side

Nor on that side

I am in between

But, this is not

My permanent address

Life is like a fish

Which is associated with

Life-long restlessness without water

In the dark alleys of fear

I caress dreams of my mother

I have to search on my own

A bank

I won't remain neutral

Same is the time

Same is the tree

Same is the courtyard

Same are Monsoon month and rains

Same gusts of wind prevail

And amidst all these

I am incessantly 

Searching myself.