English Literature – Poetry ☆ Not My Bargain… ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.

We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Not My Bargain… ~”.  We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji (who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages) and his artwork.) 

~ Not My Bargain… ~ 

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Once, relationships breathed in fire

They shared joy, they shared grief

They held hands through despair

But storms of self-interest came

And bonds were unabashedly torn apart

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Now love is weighed without shame

On selfish scales of ulterior motives

Measured only by profit and loss

By the cold arithmetic of give and take

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Listen—

I reject your scales, resolutely

I reject your bargain, flatly

I choose dreaded solitude instead

Where freedom breathes unshackled

And even death feels beautiful…!

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM