WHEN I WILL BE EXTINCT: RAJASTHANI POEM BY KUMAR AJAY: ENGLISH TRANSVERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 WHEN I WILL BE EXTINCT

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Quiver of death

Contains innumerable arrow in it

For how long, I will be able to escape

Ultimately, I will have to surrender

In front of any of these

But, before departing

I want to peep a bit in future

After all, what will happen

When I am no more

Who will gather in my funeral

Who will reach to cry 

With true-heart

On my final departure?

Who will lament beating chest

And who will be really shattered from within

Who will just pretend 

Make a show off of wailing

Many of them will accompany

Till cremation ground

But will remain utterly indifferent

About my departure

Just as they were

Unfamiliar with my existence

Out of these, one or two might be such

Who are pleased within heart

With my non-existence

And among them, might be present someone

As if to repay by debt

Coz, I had attended funerals in their family

Any member of their family will attend mine

In my cupboard, so many

Bright coloured shirts are hanging

Who will wear these

Anybody, may or may not wear this

If they don't wear, what will happen to those shirts

When I am no more

In my bank account is some money

Saved by me very effortfully

And a few policies of L. I. C.

That I had taken under persuasion of agent.

When I am no more, who will use that money

And how will it be utilized

Whole claim of L.I.C., how much it will compensate

For my non-existence

When I exit from this world

Who will sit in office, on my revolving chair

Who will take bribe of my part

Who will manage, my part of work

Who will listen to rebukes of officers

And revert by abusing them in heart

When, I am non-existent

Who will bear sufferings of my part

Who will enjoy comforts of my part

Who will take restlessness of my heart

And what will happen to those 

Whom I love limitlessly

And those who are attached with me

Who will occupy the seat vacated by me

I want to peep a bit , in future

What tasks will be accomplished referring my name

When I depart from here, how will be felt

My non-existence in this world?