Poems About Time And Continuity

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The Meaning of Every Bead

Wide, open eyes

Just staring above

On a quiet evening

Stunned

On the vast wall of time

I fasten a piece

of my calm state of mind

And then treading softly

Even in the approaching darkness

I can see

The sparkle in the sage’s eye

And I realise

The meaning of every bead

Slipping away from his hand.

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TRANSLATION

Once Again, We Begin

Fact is

Time does not pass

Neither do day, night

Weeks and months never end

The year never ends

Time never really ends at any point

Time does not begin

It doesn't end either

It flows ceaselessly

Like wind

Like water

Like air

Unbroken – perpetual, without end

And us?

We have not ended either

We are still standing

Bound by gravity

Rooted steady on our feet

Just spinning around.

Unknown to us

The circle of life too keeps spinning.

Time does not end

Just because its underfoot,

We do not come to an end either

The year begins again

And we keep renewing ourselves…!

(translated by Mayabhushan Nagvenkar)

Dr Anuja Joshi is a Goa-based poet