"Deep-Shallow", A Poetry

Deep-Shallow

  

Conversations need not be in prose always; Prose with some poem makes dialogue more wholesome. 

OK agreed, that wasn't as cool as I thought it would be. But the poem below might strike some chord. Actually its not poetry in the conventional sense; at the best musings of a searching soul, and the worst some play with words...not conventional, but who likes conventional anyway! 

I wrote it in Hindi a few weeks back and today I translated it in English. Forgive me if you feel the translation is not up to the mark !

गहरा-उथला

गहरी
आस, प्यास, चाह...

गहरी
चिंता, लालसा, तृष्णा...

गहरी
तन्हाई, उलफत, उलझन...

उथली
प्रीत, चेष्टा, दृष्टि...

उथला
पुरुषार्थ, परमार्थ, सौहार्द...

उथली
ज़िंदगी...

उथला होता गर गहरा
तो होती गहरी तलाश...

होती गहरी
ज़िंदगी .

 - विवेक शर्मा

The English Translation...

Deep-Shallow

Deep

wish, thirst, desire;

Deep

worry, longing, affinity;

Deep

loneliness, affection, confusion;

Shallow

love, effort, vision;

Shallow

manliness, spirituality, heartiness;

Shallow

Life;

If shallow had been deep

then deep would be the Search;

Deep would be

Life.

- Vivek Sharma