बड़ी उलझन में पड़ जाता हूँ मेरे देश,
देखता हूँ जब भी तुम्हें मुख़्तलिफ़ शक्लों,रंगों और नारों में!
तुम्हें ढोता हूँ अब अपने माथे पर
मेरे लहू और मेरी मौत के बीच:
तुम गुलाब हो या क़ब्रगाह?
तुम्हें देखता हूँ बच्चों की तरह
अपने पेट को घसीटते गुड़कते हुए
आज्ञाकारी,दण्डवत अपनी खुद की पहनाई हुई बेड़ियों में
हर चाबुक के लिए अलग चमड़ी पहनते हुए...
तुम गुलाब हो या क़ब्रगाह?
तुमने मेरी हत्या की
तुमने मेरे गीतों की हत्या की
तुम सिर्फ जनसंहार हो
या कोई क्रांति?
बड़ी उलझन में पड़ जाता हूँ मेरे देश जब भी
देखता हूँ तुम्हें मुख़्तलिफ़ शक्लों,रंगों और नारों में...
#अडोनिस
रूपांतर:#सुधांशु फ़िरदौस
26 जनवरी 2017
23 जनवरी 2017
अंत में
अंत में
हमें पैदा नहीं होना था
हमें लड़ना नहीं था
हमें तो हेमकुंठ पर बैठ कर
भक्ति करनी थी
लेकिन जब सतलुज के पानी से भाप उठी
जब क़ाज़ी नज़रुल इस्लाम की जुबाान रुकी
जब लड़को के पास देखा 'जेम्स बांड'
तो मैं कह उठा, चल भाई संत संधू*
नीचे धरती पर चले
पापों का बोझ तो बढ़ता जाता हैं
और अब हम आएं है
यह लो हमारा ज़फरनामा
हमारे हिस्से की कटार हमें दे दो
हमारा पेट हाज़िर हैं……।
हमें पैदा नहीं होना था
हमें लड़ना नहीं था
हमें तो हेमकुंठ पर बैठ कर
भक्ति करनी थी
लेकिन जब सतलुज के पानी से भाप उठी
जब क़ाज़ी नज़रुल इस्लाम की जुबाान रुकी
जब लड़को के पास देखा 'जेम्स बांड'
तो मैं कह उठा, चल भाई संत संधू*
नीचे धरती पर चले
पापों का बोझ तो बढ़ता जाता हैं
और अब हम आएं है
यह लो हमारा ज़फरनामा
हमारे हिस्से की कटार हमें दे दो
हमारा पेट हाज़िर हैं……।
3 जनवरी 2017
Youth
Your unhappy and silly youth.
Your arrival from the provinces in the city.
Misted-over windowpanes of streetcars,
Restless misery of the crowd.
Your dread when you entered a place too expensive.
But everything was too expensive. Too high.
Those people must have noticed your crude manners,
Your outmoded clothes, and your awkwardness.
There were none who would stand by you and say,
You are a handsome boy,
You are strong and healthy,
Your misfortunes are imaginary.
You would not have envied a tenor in an overcoat of camel hair
Had you guessed his fear and known how he would die.
She, the red-haired, because of whom you suffer tortures,
So beautiful she seems to you, is a doll in fire.
You don’t understand what she screams with her lips of a clown.
The shapes of hats, the cut of robes, faces in the mirrors,
You will remember all that unclearly, as something from long ago,
Or as what remains from a dream.
The house you approach trembling,
The apartment that dazzles you—
Look, on this spot the cranes clear the rubble.
In your turn you will have, possess, secure,
Able to be proud at last, when there is no reason.
Your wishes will be fulfilled, you will gape then
At the essence of time, woven of smoke and mist,
An iridescent fabric of lives that last one day,
Which rises and falls like an unchanging sea.
Books you have read will be of use no more.
You searched for an answer but lived without answer.
You will walk in the streets of southern cities,
Restored to your beginnings, seeing again in rapture
The whiteness of a garden after the first night of snow.
--- Czeslaw Milosz
Your arrival from the provinces in the city.
Misted-over windowpanes of streetcars,
Restless misery of the crowd.
Your dread when you entered a place too expensive.
But everything was too expensive. Too high.
Those people must have noticed your crude manners,
Your outmoded clothes, and your awkwardness.
There were none who would stand by you and say,
You are a handsome boy,
You are strong and healthy,
Your misfortunes are imaginary.
You would not have envied a tenor in an overcoat of camel hair
Had you guessed his fear and known how he would die.
She, the red-haired, because of whom you suffer tortures,
So beautiful she seems to you, is a doll in fire.
You don’t understand what she screams with her lips of a clown.
The shapes of hats, the cut of robes, faces in the mirrors,
You will remember all that unclearly, as something from long ago,
Or as what remains from a dream.
The house you approach trembling,
The apartment that dazzles you—
Look, on this spot the cranes clear the rubble.
In your turn you will have, possess, secure,
Able to be proud at last, when there is no reason.
Your wishes will be fulfilled, you will gape then
At the essence of time, woven of smoke and mist,
An iridescent fabric of lives that last one day,
Which rises and falls like an unchanging sea.
Books you have read will be of use no more.
You searched for an answer but lived without answer.
You will walk in the streets of southern cities,
Restored to your beginnings, seeing again in rapture
The whiteness of a garden after the first night of snow.
--- Czeslaw Milosz