LONGING FOR IDENTITY

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 LONGING FOR IDENTITY


I remained less significant

Then a name scribbled with

Chalk-powder 

On a wall.


Longing for identity

Whiteness that clung 

With the fingers

That--was washed away.


Now, myself

Only remnant

In the  frowning colony 

Sometimes stagnant,

 Sometimes flowing water.


Original Poem ' ASTITV KEE CHAH MEIN' in Hindi  by Kavi Anurag

Translated into English  by Rajni Chhabra

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