Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 03 Sep 2008
Time’s Flow
Wish to reproduce & share translation of introspective Poem by Gujrati language poet Rajendra Shukla.. (Birth 1942- )
Time’s Flow
I was barred from even playing
with the shadow cast on the wall.
How many times Grandma had chided me in Childhood:
“Can’t play so much with the shadow, son,
you can go mad…”
But I had such a yen for the shadow,
like the monsoon’s for river water flow!
So I kept playing with shadow.
So great was the mad urge
I kept flowing surf after surf.
To-day, when all this is long past
suddenly somehow from somewhere
dawns understanding
of time’s flow
in Grandma’s words.
All my entanglements are on fire;
let now my self’s image
with the shadow merge!
-Original Poem in Gujrati by Rajendra Shukla
© Translated in English by Pradip Khandwalla