WORRIES IN TORRENTIAL RAIN: ENGLISH VERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA. POEM ORIGINALLY COMPOSED IN NEPALI BY BIRBHADRA KARKIDHOLI
WORRIES IN TORRENTIAL RAIN
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I am worried about my soil
My courtyard and my kitchen-garden
My abode will be constructed on my own soil
My existence will have to bloom
In my marigold and velvety flowers
I will have to be garlanded with flowers of existence
By my sisters and daughters
I am afraid of getting asleep
Lest any nightmares should follow!
I am able to distinguish
Aroma of my soil
From aroma of different types of soil.
I am worried about my own soil
Lest it mingles or anybody mingle
My soil with any other type of soil
Everyone is acquainted with
Uniqueness and significance of my soil
So, this worry also persists
Lest anybody mingles chemical in
My very fertile fields.
When torrential rain follows
I am worried lest this fertile soil of my fields
Flows and mingles in field of others
Whosoever might be possessing
Our correct measures
We have to store our harvest in granaries
Measuring with that only
This sweat! This life-blood
Has not flown in vain
I am worried for
Getting released my mortgaged fields
And for preventing overflow of water
I feel concern for
My courtyard, my boundaries.
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