Arun Kamal (India)

Don't Look For Me

No don't look for me
if I don't get back home till the night end
No missing posters no public announcements
if I don't come home for a week or so
don't suspend your work
no wait in the evenings
just think that I am there somewhere
like so many men and women in the world
whom we do not know
Like them who're no more but we seldom
remember them.
No don't try to search me out
I'll never get lost
And will glitter up all of a sudden in a moonlit night
like a silver coin buried in the dust.

Translated from Hindi by Kiran

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