TOWARDS WHICH DIRECTION ? : HINDI POEM BY PROMILA BHARDWAJ: ENGLISH VERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 TOWARDS WHICH DIRECTION ?

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Riding on wheels of time

Which way, are we heading?

Tearing under wheels

Grinding our very existence

Just bend and see once

Halt for a moment, observe,

Hundreds of joys are being crushed,

Beyond worldly comforts

View ethereal  beauty.

Just revert and view,

Your love is calling you,

With stiff eyes, waiting for you 

Whole day and night

For those moments, when carefreely 

Beloved glances at her

Snatching away those moments

Flight of time is taking us

Far away

Creeks of heart are getting filled 

With void

Turning blank are 

Relations and concerns.

Lack of time has snatched 

Near and dear ones from us

Pleasing meetings, those get-together,

Long gossips 

That mirth, merry making,

Taking away all fatigue,

Parents now crave for seeing

Their progeny

Derive happiness, my meeting in reveries

 Children go to bed, waiting for parents

In dreams, express their grudging

Tell them their demands, get satisfied.

Friends often converse

But, only on phone

Co-sharing pain and pleasure

Is only a formality.

Roots of *Sanskaras are deep

Hence, persist 

But shrinking by and by

In WhatsApp, face book and e mail

Homes are turning into night-shelter.

Dominance of time has snatched

So much from us.

Descending from chariot of time

Care to view ground

O, supreme creature of this earth!

Physical comforts, internet etc., 

Are for you, you are not for them.

Those are not measuring-scales of 

Your success and comfort,

In craze of touching

Unlimited heights of success,

What is actually desirable

Actually, the most requisite for us are

Peace and happiness

We are ignoring these.

Riding on chariot of time

Towards which direction, are we heading?