KUMAR AMBAYERAM

 A POEM BY 

KUMAR AMBAYERAM

Translated into English by Latha Ramakrishnan(*First Draft)

1. YOU THEREIN .....

I have a piece of land

I am not using it now.

I am not sowing in it nor harvesting

It is a virgin land

Seeds on their own

Have sprouted there.

It’s size just 3/6

Don’t take it to be small

Just as ‘Appam’ and ‘Fish’

It would flourish infinitely

You can feed others

all through their lives

As for me

suffice to have my tomb’s doors not 

knocked at

for three days

till the time of my resurrection.