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'''अँग्रेज़ी से अनुवाद : श्रीविलास सिंह'''
''' लीजिए, अब यही कविता अँग्रेज़ी अनुवाद में पढ़िए'''
Sitor Situmorang
Gateway
Forty detainees step down from two trucks
in ordered fashion
before the prison door.
The massive gateway gapes.
All goes smoothly, according to command
(the roar of the trucks now leaving
overpower the sound of the rows counting off)
The commander stares at the detainees, one by one,
as they walk by in twos
the eternal formation of the vanquished.
I am one of them
stepping over the threshold of my own heart
through the gateway between past and present
The single moment of existence
Man imprisoning man.
1977
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