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Man Mohan
AN AWFUL TIME
What awful times these are
One meets an old friend
And what marks the occasion is
His old self
And gratitude
For the remnants of memory
And sometimes there is the one
Carrying the burden of shadows
Still in the future
(Translated from Hindi by Nalini Taneja)
* * *
Man Mohan
DISGARECEFUL TIMES
Disgraceful times—
you meet a friend, he's
alive.
Yet more than him there is
his remembrance.
And whatsoever remains
of gratitude
for the remembrance.
Or sometimes
someone meets you,
lugging with him
his coming shadow,
taller than him.
(Translated by Rajesh Sharma )
* * *
Manmohan
A SHAMEFUL TIME
What a shameful time
One meets a living friend
More than him, his memory
Presents itself
And towards such memory
Is one's leftover gratitude
Or does someone meet
With his future shadow
Taller than him?
(Translated by Pallavi Prasad)
* * *
Man Mohan
TIME OF SHAME
in these shameful times
Meeting a friend who still lives
Is finding memories of him mean much more
Than his present self
And that feeling of gratefulness
Towards whatever is left of that memory
Or else one meets someone
Dragging with him
The tall shadows of his future
(Translated by Asad Zaidi)
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