~Tulasi Diwas~
Translated by Abhi Subedi
In the heart of Tapovan*
Standing for sometime
With the trees in ecstasy of meditation
And talking to them in the trees’ idioms
Like a tree myself
A revelation came to me –
Eternal and ancient is the relationship
Between trees and mankind!
So there’s always
Some tree in man
And a little man in tree,
But these days I find
The tree in man slowly
Turning pale and dying
Though the man in tree
Is green and alive!
And I find again
The man growing in a tree
Becoming taller than the tree
Growing in a man!
[*] A lovely wood for meditation near Kathmandu that also houses the Rajneesh Ashram
(Source : Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) website)
