THE SO CALLED'BIG PEOPLE'
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How the Big People use night?
The Big people do not put on night as cloak
Like prisoners
They use night as shelter to hide
misdeeds of the day.
They seem to bow before night
Which will neither fall nor rise at their command.
The night involves everybody.
Some wounds are not seen,
They simply cause pain
Those, which cannot be, hidden anywhere
The Night hides them.
The unclothed
Wear darkness as cloth
While the fully clothed
Become unclothed in the night.
The night affects everybody
Some Big People keep waiting for the night all day
To throw off their pretensions.
Some Big people change their apparel in night
And then wait till morning
To become great once again.
Satisfying hunger more than a hunger warrants
What else the big people use the night for?
More than the hunger demands
The surplus food is pressed in their houses
Some big people enjoy the rotting smell of that food
And see their garments getting soiled
On their own bodies only.
Some Big people long for a night
Longer enough than an ordinary long life can ever think of
To overturn the day
They wait for the night.
To love to run through its thick lane like veins
Scowling like hot male cat
They want to swim through the dark blood of night.
To some Big People the face
is a mistaken belief .
Even tracing a face in the mirror
Is sheer madness to them.
They treat own face like a hearsay .
Big people terribly miss to look at their own feet
All day.
While there are men who try to get hold of their feet
By literally entering into their shoes.
People who deal with these Big people
Are either different human faces totally
Or they are the mere paper bodies.
In night when the Big People
Look at their naked feet
They are suddenly possessed by a mistaken belief
That they had a face too.
The face which neither shows up
In office nor in the mirror
Is actually never present on their appearance.
They miss a face.
Possessed by the fear of death they fancy
to have talk with that face.
They loathe their soul all night.
Those who are unable pass even a thread on needle
in day time
Have the strength to snap all thread in the night.
Their morning begins regarding plucked buttons
Their day starts with the attempts
To cover-up and conceal.
To say how the Big People use the night?
Is like declaring war on their secrets
Translation into English by Govind Prasad Bahuguna
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