The Blood Soaked Existence
In the supermarket
I encounter
my existence
and enter gradually
into the deep waterbody
of existence
You enter
into the shopping mall
in its dazzling light
you get taste
of a new planet
Likewise
deep black waterbody
continuous effort of light
for entering into it
The supermarket
widens and
my existence is blood soaked o
In the city
A man
Thrown away by the God
from the roof of the sky
He moves in the city
in the morning of autumn
Eager to search two drops of dew
The big malls
absorb the dew
Time goes on
the shops dazzle
in the sunshine
the coins deposited there
disperse
the small and big roads of life.
Translated by the Poet.
An accomplished Assamese poet-critic and translator M Kamaluddin Ahmed (born 1966) is a University Professor. His poems have been included in collections published by Harper Collins and Penguin.