Being and Nothingness | ഉള്ളതും ഇല്ലാത്തതും

(Translated from Shri Vishnuprasad's poem ULLATHUM ILLATTHATHUM ഉള്ളതും ഇല്ലാത്തതും)

I saw children,
pretending to be ghosts,
trying to scare away a cat.

May be they think
that the dead are
more powerful than the living.
If not ,
how could they
march against an enemy
they are afraid of?

They should be right;
Things that are not
are more powerful than
those that are.

Dreams that are not,
grandeur that is not,
so on,
those abode on non entity
are more alive
than the living

The flight
of a bird that is not
the stature
of a tree that is not
the stare
of a man who is not
the clamour
of voices that are not

No,
Things that are
will never stand against
things that are not;
things that are
are afraid of
things that are not.

Trans. പരി. : Manu മനു

താഴോട്ടു നോക്കി നടക്കണം | Look down while you walk

വിഷ്ണുപ്രസാദിന്റെ താഴോട്ടുനോക്കി നടക്കണം എന്ന കവിത
One should walk,
looking down to the street
Then only he could see
half burned matches,
crushed cigarette buds,
ashen sweet wrappers
And the lottery tickets
of the unlucky ,
under his feet.

One should walk
looking down to the street
Then only he could hear
the remindings of the street
that this earth
is the churchyard
of the dumped

Author : Vishnuprasad
Translated by : sanathanan