Dichtung und Wahrheit
K. Radhakumar *
I speak my heart
For memory is sweet
And hope bitter now,
For one word of truth
Gives birth to the universe.
I have been living, have been living
In a little universe of my own:
Money, possessions, femme fatale,
Material comforts
That's not all.
That's not all.
Sometimes I lie awake all night
And I feel my life is empty.
The beauty of the eastern sky at sunrise
And you, in your incarnation
As more than my wife –
I always miss much.
What with the bad weather
And my sore feet,
I haven’t progressed much in the woods
And the woods are not always fair.
The universe is vast.
At night I think of
The civilization that built it,
The wisdom that designed
The perfect symmetry of cosmos.
When I am philosophical
About my place in the cosmos,
The universe keeps on expanding
Like the petals of the flowers in the sunshine.
Dichtung und Wahrheit!
I write about the universe or the truth;
My poetry is about the truth.
If it is not for the truth
I will not write even a single line.
The more I write about it
The more I discover new things.
That's the wonder of poetry or the truth,
You are always discovering new heavens.
* Poem written by K. Radhakumar which was published at The Sangai Express
This poem was webcasted on September 09, 2017.
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