MAFAZ

A POEM BY

MAFAZ

Translated into English by Latha Ramakrishnan

(*First Draft)

HEAT

When we abhor torrential downpour

Heat would increase all the more

When we destroy the forests

Environment gets polluted for ever.

When the peasants’ farming

suffers

The crops would turn dry

Gloom would remain; reign

Light would stay far away

When the bodily heat

would indicate labour

when the sun gulps the sweat

blood would prove a boon.

Climate-borne environment

Water inside the nerve at the neck

has turned a blister and burn

Losing delight

prayers in the household

From Almighty

to pour torrential rain

And the virus of the world to

Be excavated anon