We both are the Same River

Telugu: Nanda Kishore

 

We cannot stay at the same place. Nor can we survive in a new place. We can’t leave the  tense occasion that teases us. We cannot stop the rising sun either.

Moonlight companion!

Making the moonlight vanish that lights up a cold night, arresting the wind that fills up cold nights, annihilating at once the time that converts night into ragas and renders songs of darkness—

You choose to walk in  one direction, I walk another way. Wherever we halt we begin to shed hopes, whenever we feel exhausted we console the heart. Instead of  happiness for the loneliness attained, we continue the journey thinking of the destination yet to reach.

Moonlight companion!

A miracle might not happen. The sky may not bend and talk to you. The stars may not accompany you. The path you tread may not be filled with flowers.

Moonlight companion!

Floating inside you, the one who kissed you as a flow – maybe washed away in the surge. Caught in the matrix of light, he may not be located by the eye.

Moonlight companion!

So many times, how so many fashions, how many ages, in how many shapes have we loved one another? Haven’t we tolerated many of these non-occasions and lived through together in perplexity?

Isn’t it true that even in this desert-life we play with sand dreaming of the season of budding blooms? If true–

Moonlight companion!

As boats sail cutting across waters, moonlight flashes piercing through the sky, as birds fly  away through the air, if it is true that you break the heart—walk over! Walk over like this, this way!

Where no sound can be heard, wind talks to you. Where no scene is visible, vacuum appears to you. Where no human greets you, you confront yourself and realising you and I are not different, you come back happily.

You announce to the world that you and I are not separate.

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Damodar Rao K.

Damodar Rao, K., retired as Head and Associate Professor from the Dept of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal. He had many critical and translated works to his credit.

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