What sounds are these?
Do fish in water weep
or waves sob?
We lost the way
but kept on, hoping
the way would end
but it's we who will end…
Look at the trees on the shore
lip to lip, whispering
about us, but the birds
have closed their eyes
with the sun.
The sky garbed
in dark,
searching stars
heart swayed
by swaying waves
now aflame.
Let's plunge in
and drown then.
Jyoti Lanjewar's poem 'be avaj' translated by Gauri Deshpande. Source: Stri Dalit Sahitya: The new voice of women poets. Images of women in Maharashtrian literature and religion.
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