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10-Insight

Insight

For some reason

you are upset with me

for a couple of days

Although I don’t know the reason

I guess it right

You haven’t spelled it out

I too haven’t asked you

We have taken opposite positions

Silence is chatting between us

Maybe the conversation is called

the battle of nerves

Bloodless

without arms

this is the most difficult battle

On earth it is the best person

who wins this battle again and again

It is the one who ends this silent battle

is ever defeated

You want to be the winner

Me too don’t want to be the loser

So the distance between us is widening

Guna Moran

(Original Assamese poem titled “Antardarshan”)
Tr. © Nirendra Nath Thakuria
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