Is That All?— poem
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(thanks to ChatGPT for helping me to translate my original Tamil Poem into English )
Is That All?
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Before placing
the round mound of earth,
a thought stirs within me—
to look at this face
one last time,
up close.
Is this the final day
for this face?
Is this the hour
to burn
a beloved bond?
Have the shoulders
that carried me
all those years
disappeared?
Have the hands
that shaped my life,
that gave and gave,
gone cold?
Is there nothing left
to repay?
Is there no love left?
Is there no gentle breeze
that once gathered itself
and came to me
with such tenderness?
Is that all?
Has it all
gone out?
Is this all?
Is loss
what life is?
— Nagendra Bharathi
My Poems/Stories/Articles in Tamil and English
