Just this half day - Poem

K Siva Reddy's poem translated

Just this half day

Let this half day be over

Silently, neatly

Sans regrets, sans consecrations

Let this half day be over

Sans worry about morrow

Sans slipping and haste

Sans turmoil, unending sorrow

Just this half day

Washing each half day the same half day and drying

At least this half day without tears

Without famines and droughts

Poor courts, false prejudices

Galloping horse not dying suddenly

Just this half day

Yesterday is irrelevant

Tomorrow out of context

Just this half day I shall

Turn me into myself

Hide me under my own eyes

Into a healthy point

Opening doors

First step of journey

Next step, Last step

That all be one

After nights, after highways

Stop scampering

Just this half day

On my own

With my own guard – my paradise

Without any other shadows touching

Without any foot prints marking

Just this half day, all mine, all yours

For all of us shall we make it

Shall we get it released from jail!