Re: [nukkad] Asha, this is not good!!!

["aryaone" <>]

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Ameer wrote:
> The flavor of one's mother tongue... is intoxicating.
> Finding a person who knows Kannada, 
> I definitely got carried away.
> 
And someone else, who got annoyed at Asha for tasting the
words of her own people:
>
LET ME SPEAK

Let me speak, while breath lasts.

The words may sound strange to you
But to me they are the bridge to days gone by.

There was a home, but not many in it loved me
There was a town, but bandits with hard eyes came
And settled into garden and bower and made it theirs.

There were young days, days when youth was not old
There were, I fear to say it, not many happy carefree days.

One day, as youth set in, some claimed my half-home
And said to me, "It is time to go. A far off desert awaits."

I said goodbye, to no one in particular, because they
Had already forgotten me even before I was half gone.

Now in far lands, I hear the language of my unhappy days
And go home, to my dead home, then, and now, barren.

Do not, then, stop anyone from reaching the shore
Of a long forgotten sea, on a boat made, of words

Of Home.
















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