Skip to main content

A poem I wrote

Here’s a poem I wrote in French today. I am also giving the English translation below the original French one.


Vide

Beaucoup d'alimentation pour me bourrer.
Tant de vêtements pour m'habiller.
Mais mon cœur est vide.


Tas de choses que je fais pour occuper mes jours.
Tant de livres pour remplir mes étagères.
Mais ma tête est vide.


Beaucoup de personnes pour occuper ma vie.
Et un peu plus pour me manquer après ma mort.
Mais mon âme est vide.


Tout est vide.
Tout est vide.
Tout est complètement vide.


Empty


A lot of food to stuff myself with.
So many clothes to dress myself up.
But my heart is empty.


So many things that I do to fill my days.
So many books to fill my shelves.
But my mind is empty.


A lot of people to fill my life.
And some more to miss me after my death.
But my soul is empty.


Everything is empty.
Everything is empty.
Everything is completely empty.
Labels:

Comments

Seema Smile said…
The best test of command over language is to be able to write poetry in it. This one sounds great in English, I'm sure the French version is beautiful too ... alas I can't understand a word of it. Thank you for the translation :)
22 December 2009 at 14:21
The Wanderer said…
Thanks a lot Seema ! Although, in my opinion, neither the French one nor the English one have very high literary value, they are important to me for the very reason you mentioned, and I'm feeling a little proud at the moment :)
22 December 2009 at 20:23
The Wanderer said…
Some glitch prevented me from accepting this comment left by Swapnali http://hheaviosity.blogspot.com/

So I just copied it from her email to my gmail account and I'm posting it here:
"Nice one.. you ought to be proud of the creation! Keep writing! :)"

And here's my response to her kind words:
"Thank you so much ! Its good to receive a compliment from someone whose work you appreciate :)"
4 January 2010 at 15:47
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How NOT to compère a function

Recently I attended an awards ceremony. It was a grand function with a huge audience in attendance. Many awards were given and some speeches too. The compère was, unintentionally, terribly funny ! In this function, when the compère announced the first award winner, he announced, “Please welcome on stage Mr. X (pause) married to (pause) wife Mrs. X (pause) from 1977 and successfully (pause) completed 32 years of (pause) married life…” I had tears in my eyes from laughing too hard :D Later, the same compère, while telling the audiences about a certain award winner, said, “…he is married (pause) to wife Mrs. Z (pause) and enjoys playing with his (pause) children K and M. His favourite (pause) holiday destination is (pause) the beaches (pronounced as ‘bitches’) of (pause) Goa” I nearly died choking with laughter for this one ! In the 45 minutes that he was on stage he was responsible for much hilarity due to his totally inappropriate commentary. I, of course, laughed my guts out and what c
Post a Comment
Read more

‘Geographically challenged’

I laughed my guts out while reading this . Then I had another bout of laughter thinking of all the incidents that happen with me. For a long time now I have known that I am, what I like to call, ‘geographically challenged’ :) Situation 1 - If I go inside a building (happens mostly with residential buildings), then after I exit the lift (elevator) or come down the stairs, I cannot quickly locate the gate ! Situation 2 - If I am inside a building, I will routinely point in wrong directions to indicate places outside the building. Situation 3 - I am presently at office. I have come here from home. Now I have to go to some place where I have always gone from home and never from office. What do I do ? I go home first and from there I go to that place. It doesn’t matter if it is a longer distance or takes more time. I have to do this, because simply have no mechanism to re-align my mental map to my present location ! Situation 4 - Another thing is that if I have come to your place in
11 comments
Read more

Love in the rains :)

Heart shaped ditch on a construction site next to our office building ! Closer view of the 'heart' ! You can find love in the most unusual places ! :)
7 comments
Read more