Yahan Here

Chepegi weh
Kankal main apne
Yuva chawi se baachkar

Yahan dhansegi weh
Santap main apney
Atma se chip kar

Noch dalegi
Yahan vipikhsta
Deh aur swapan

Dundeghi weh
Tinka bhar jagah
Dusron ki kavita main

Yahi weh pathar hai
Jisey chantegi weh

Ek jo machli hai
Ek jo a-machli hai

Dunbegi
Dono hi

Yahan
Yahin par


Here

Here she will hide in her skeleton
Escaping the assaults 
On her youthful beauty. 

Here she will bury herself
Under her grief,
Hiding from her soul. 

Here she will go through 
The ordeals of her body and dreams. 

She will look for a corner
In the poetry of others. 

This is the stone
That she will lick. 

The one that is a fish
And the other, a fish without fins,
Both will drown here.
Right here.

Note:telling here the plight
of a married Indian woman. "Here" stands for the
home where she lives in a joint family. The poem is 
full of metaphors, hard to put into English free verse.

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