KUMAR AMBAYIRAM

 A POEM BY

KUMAR AMBAYIRAM

Translated into English by Latha Ramakrishnan(*First Draft)

KONA HILLS

The twosome who have entrusted the Law

of Lovemaking

in the hands of Nature

go climbing.

She disowned by her husband being on one side

And he leaving his family being on another side

The mount go around them and continue ascending

Offering their garbs to those hook-thorns

that pull them backward implying

that this mount wouldn’t be the right place for them

to hold each other in their hands

with passion unleashed

and offering the ornaments to the

‘Ilanji’ tree

And to the hillocks that couldn’t walk

their footwear

With the ‘Nirvana’ so gained

the two reach their own peaks

In nearness that couldn’t be touched

She

And He in a distance beyond call

The Ilandhai tree observes

That the one who has scaled the peak of Kona Hills

is the one who has not set foot on it; nor ever will.