English Literature – Poetry ☆ हम! एक असलियत …’ स्व डॉ राजकुमार तिवारी ‘सुमित्र’ – We: A reality ☆ English Version by – Hemant Bawankar ☆

We boast

to break the ‘Chakravyuha’*

to transform the world.

But,

we get entangled

in spider’s web.

Be it,

in day or in night.

Neither we could break it

nor could we bend it

as we desire.

Agreed that

human being is

an effigy of weaknesses.

He has

something good, something bad.

We accept that

weakness in character

is inevitable

But, then

we multiply

others’ character with a factor.

* Chakravyūha – Chakravyūha is a wheel like military formation used to surround enemies, depicted in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It resembles a labyrinth of multiple defensive walls. Here it is taken as complications of life.

© Hemant Bawankar

Pune