Poem
Rajendra Kishore Panda
Amen
In the darkI dug out my burning eyes
And hung them on a milepost.
And then I felt
many other eyes burning there,
many other people like me
standing in a queue.
I made the queue a little longer
and prayed for the third eye.
While singing
someone went dumb.
Others took it up
only to meet the same fate.
All of them gesticulated:
Here, we are in a queue
for centuries,
waiting for the visa.
The eyes in the mileposts said,
This is the only road
to the other world.
Amen.
© Translation: 2006, Rabindra K Swain
AMEN
© 1977, Rajendra Kishore Panda
From: Ghunakshara
Publisher: Cuttack Students\' Store, Cuttack
From: Ghunakshara
Publisher: Cuttack Students\' Store, Cuttack
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Amen
In the darkI dug out my burning eyes
And hung them on a milepost.
And then I felt
many other eyes burning there,
many other people like me
standing in a queue.
I made the queue a little longer
and prayed for the third eye.
While singing
someone went dumb.
Others took it up
only to meet the same fate.
All of them gesticulated:
Here, we are in a queue
for centuries,
waiting for the visa.
The eyes in the mileposts said,
This is the only road
to the other world.
Amen.
© 2006, Rabindra K Swain
From: Ghunakshara
From: Ghunakshara
Amen
In the darkI dug out my burning eyes
And hung them on a milepost.
And then I felt
many other eyes burning there,
many other people like me
standing in a queue.
I made the queue a little longer
and prayed for the third eye.
While singing
someone went dumb.
Others took it up
only to meet the same fate.
All of them gesticulated:
Here, we are in a queue
for centuries,
waiting for the visa.
The eyes in the mileposts said,
This is the only road
to the other world.
Amen.
© 2006, Rabindra K Swain
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