FIRE

Dr Bhawani Shankar Nial 

Translated by

Bankim Mund 

It was not the fire

Of hunger

That hardly aware

Of how the day

Follows the night.

It was not the fire

Of greed for power

That breaks

Or restores the laws

Time and again;

That outlaws

The rules, regulations

Even the

 legislature

And Parliament.

It was not my fire

Of allurements

That lures me

Sometimes something,

Even enticing me

In my oblivion towards

Desert,verdancy

Royal palace

And valley of famine.

It was not the fire

Beneath the belly

But something

That hardly differentiates

 Time, day, month, space

Fortune, misfortune;

May be a conflagration

That can annhilate

All the materialistic pursuits :

Palace, empire

The rich, the poor

And their

ceaseless dream;

May be the inferno

That devours

Love, hatred

Even time:

The past, present

And future.

The fire... fire:

Ignnites

The inner world

And

The outer world.

Fire.. Fire... Fire

🎄🎄🎄

Sriradha 

Kalahandi 

Odisha, India