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A poem in KANNADA by Mamta Sagar

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A Poem to Darkness

On the edge of lights platform

sits a shadow like darkness

sits cozily and looks.

Just moving, unable to move,

just flowing, unable to flow,

munches on the story of darkness.

In the darkness of the night

no hatred, no smoldering,

no they and us or you and we

all along the path way dreams blossoming

creating a new world every moment.

Shadows that have come walking from the town of Light

losing their features in darkness

removing their hatredness

like water mingling with water

they mingle with each other

and flow in darkness like darkness.

To lock fingers darkness has no hands,to kiss darkness has no lips

no vagina or penis

all bodies dissolving in darkness

only the existence of formlessness

forged with formlessness spreads darkly.

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The moment you step beyond darkness

the crudeness, the perversity

that grow long at the very feet of shadows

hide their breasts, hide their vagina,uniting in copulation

itching with desire to rule over the millions of galaxies

walk trampling over the shadows.

The shadows quietly bend

and shrink the dreams they had in darkness

sitting on the edge of the platform of light

wait for the nights that are sure to come.

Mamta G. Sagar.Translated by O. L. Nagabhushana Swamy and the poet