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Poem

A Summer Midnight

Jan 2009

कलाकार की मूल पंक्तियाँ, ज्यों की त्यों रखी गई हैं।

सो रहा सारा चराचर प्रगाढ़ निद्रा में काली अभेद्य चादर ओढ़े सो रही निशा भी ! दिवस की लम्बी -- यात्रा का थका-माँदा सो रहा समीर भी ! रात ले चुकी आनंद -- आधी निद्रा का केवल जाग रहे नभ में असंख्य सितारे ! और ....... यहाँ ... इस धरती पर -- शांत, सुदृढ़, मौन; किसके लिए -- तोड़ लाने तो एक सितारा जाग रहा... वह कौन ?
English Translation
All that breathes and all that does not lies sunk in deep sleep, wrapped beneath night's impenetrable black shawl.
Even the night itself sleeps now, worn out from its long journey through the day, even the wind lies still, its restlessness spent.
The night has already savoured half of its own slumber, only the countless stars stay awake, keeping watch over the sky.
And here, on this quiet earth, still, steady, silent, someone stays awake too, reaching for just one star.
For whom, I wonder. Who is it that cannot sleep?

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