Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
HARI HARA DAS
(Translated from the Oriya by BRAJAKISHORE DAS)
I count and count again
The coins I’ve collected in a day,
Steeped in the bustle of greed
Is this mind of a grocer that keeps counting
Time’s every single moment.
I see reflected today
The thousand fragments of my being
In every atom of the broken mirror.
And I go on counting
The parades of bodies
On their way home from life's vanity fair.
Bleeding beneath the shield of civilization
Is the divided personality of mine,
Countless questions agitate my mind:
Beware! I come as a ghost of myself.
In this forbidden hour of life’s dark-night
I summon you, Ghost of my Self!