TELEPATHY, STAGE AND BACKSTAGE

 

TELEPATHY, STAGE AND BACKSTAGE

Whom to trust

Stage or backstage?

All the articles of backstage

Become visible

That are treated it as invisible on stage

But, stage too is cremation ground of truth

Tears shed on stage are pretentious 

And, stage is the most fertile land of

Duality

One holding bouquet of flowers on stage

Was sharpening edges of knife backstage

One acting as jester on stage

Was crying bitterly backstage

The dancer with eccentric gaze

Was having fiery eyes backstage

And the announcer had been abusing 

Vulgarly backstage 

How much disparity prevails

In external and internal craft

It is as challenging to 

Interpret thicket growing internally 

To decipher a face scribbled with diplomacy

As it is to know location of the East

From killers of the dawn

There might have been an era 

When, stages had no need of back stages

When double standards had not existed in life.

With the passage of time,

In the pretention of civilization

Someone might have arrived 

In the disguise of wolf 

And, then a backstage 

Might have been created with this wolf-hide

Then, this wolf-hide stuck to our hide to such an extent

That it became a backstage 

In between our body and mind.

Now, how to believe that

On this theatre of Universe 

Holding garland of flowers, 

Hands moving towards neck 

In the backstage of mind

Are not having intention of

Sticking to neck.

TRANSLATED BY RAJNI CHHABRA