Self translation of my Poem "Vah"

AN ORDINARY MAN

With hopes and despair

He is racing with gasping steps

In many directions and on many paths

At the speed of an ant

Within the  constraints of time

Shakespeare, Shaw, Russel, Homer,

Churchil, Lincoln , Kennedy

Nehru, Gandhi, Subhash, Patel,

Tagore, Napolean, Hitlar, Mussolini

Pable Picaso, Michealengo

Leonard da Vinci –

He had read everyone and

Their biographies

His Desires are

To become someone like that

To be absorbed in the pages of history

To be on the lips of people

To become famous

But

He is leading an “ ordinary

Married life”

Within his own little ‘Circle’

He is considered intelligent

But others around him

Considers him to be mad man

Perhaps because he is a junior Clerk

Man is known by his post and not

Wisdom in our Society

The roads are moving at a  fast pace

Huge Machines are churning out products

Globalization and the liberalization policies

Of the Western countries are

Bringing underdeveloped nations into their clutches

Such a huge world and its contours

Crushed his dwarf personality

He remained chained to his situations

Could not break his own shackles

In few days, people will forget him

His body will be consumed in the flames

History will not absorb him in its vast encompass

His contribution has been nothing

He could not decide which course to choose

During his short life span

Was he weak?

Was he slave to his circumstances?

Was he a tiny Clerk”

You Decide………

Vinod Passy “Hanskamal”