English Translation: Crop Holiday
Crop Holiday
Vanaja Tatineni
He was a farmer. Famine struck.
His better half, weary, bid farewell.
He lost his mind.
He wandered wherever his feet took him.
He took holy dips in the sacred Ganga,
at the ocean’s confluence,
at the Triveni Sangam, at the Kumbh Mela,
and during many a Pushkaram.
But... his yearning was not quenched.
His mind found no peace.
He wandered as if with fire tied to his lap.
The river took pity and whispered a secret in his ear.
"The sin of tilling the earth with your plow has not left you.
You tilled her again and again,
without even seeing that she was a new mother,
you sowed your seeds," it said.
At that moment, he remembered his wife.
He remembered her groans in the nights.
He remembered the labour pains heard
from the other room.
The river concluded,
"For a crop to yield, a farmer’s toil alone is not enough.
To prevent the land from bearing rotten fruit,
you must give the earth her rest, mustn't you?"
©️Vanaja Tatineni
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