The Sun is one who sees and knows everything.
Patience rests in the Earth’s guts.
Only a glimpse - and I grew terrified.
Why don’t they explode? How do they stand it? Thousands of my thought-birds drift in the sky.
My voice may now never reach beyond white-capped mountains.
Looking out of the window today
I realised nothing will change. Big city. Old soul. Busy life.
Tree leaves don’t remember happiness.
Nostalgia is followed by her foal,
Chasing ever-racing time. I can’t keep up with this galloping age,
tangled in the bindweed of loneliness.
But looking out of the window, I am fine -And realise: this is happiness.
~ Gulnar Salykbay
Translated from Kazakh by Assiya Issemberdiyeva
source : poetrytranslation.org
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Nehal
I usually write in my mother tongue Gujarati and sometimes in Hindi and English.
Nehal’s world is at the crossroads of my inner and outer worlds, hope you like the journey…
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