WELCOMING EARTH
¼i`Foh dk Lokxr – yhyk/kj txwM+h English translation by GPBahuguna}
From the day of split
All burden came on her head.
Mountains rest in her lap as her children
Covered by the blanket of fog.
Despite a split up she keeps revolving round
Her million year old relations.
To prepare for her Great-bath
Half the ocean has gone into sky
A streak of light flashed from clouds
hanging over her head for many days
To embolden her face in cheerfulness
For months, years and centuries.
We welcome this Earth.
Volcanic by appearance, dark to the depth of heart
Rich in fertility but uncultivated by physique
Shaken by her tremors frequently
The sky follows on every turn of her street.
And clinging to her for their existence
the dwellers in their victory or defeat
fears or surprises
move on from one corner to the other
From one end to other ends.
There is no space outside its periphery
to stand and wait for the time being
As long as we are in the grip of fear
We continue to hold welcome for Earth
We welcome this Earth.
All settlements whether a village, school and library,
institutions of law or assembly houses
all mines of riches and mineral wealth,
Countries and animal life, trees and orchards
Floras and faunas, and the whole expanse of forests
Every thing belongs to us.
The earth owns nothing.
Not even single blade of grass or leaf.
It suffers splits and heats, cools in snow
sandy in deserts,going wet and loose,
facing degradation and erosions,hardening
yet solid and rich with greenery.
It is Shaped and seasoned by its own soil and mud.
It does not feel either hunger or thirst
It is burrowed and furrowed, sowed and harvested
time and again,
It feels neither happy nor sad yet keeps on rotating on its axis.
We welcome this Earth
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Translation into English by Govind Prasad Bahuguna
When thunderbolts strike,
or the mountains sink and the lakes burst,
The clouds upset all directions
The rivers devour all banks without teeth and jaws
swallowing towns, villages, vegetation and life in one gulp
Yet we begin our life again on its surface
To satisfy their hunger the rats and reptiles like us
respect her existence
Yet she will have to face extinction some day.
Nevertheless people never stop wondering
how much gold it holds in its possession
The diamonds keep on cutting its core of heart.
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