EARTHBORNE ONLINE POETRY MAGAZINE

THUS SPOKE THE FATHER

 

( Translated by the poet सुशांत सुप्रिय from Hindi )

 

When I will no longer be there

I will still be there-

-thus spoke the father

I will be alive in the

writings of my eldest son

I will peep out of the

paintings of my youngest daughter

I will breathe in theself

-respect of my second son

I will survive in the

steely resolve of my third son

Just as my father lives in me

and my children will live in their children

so will I be saved

in all of you

o my children-

-said our father to us.