The City Wandering Without Words

Death with a cruel face finishes
devouring the children
Along with a militant
twenty civilians around
were shot at and felled.
The house is plunged in a digit.

In the wrong estimation
those who celebrate Deaths and are startled,
turned anguished to the core seeing the
withered flowers of
the city wandering without words.
In the front page of the Journals
the tears of words remained brimming.
At the entrance of the Media office
that the sounding guns pursue,
the all too terrible caution of blood was heaped.

The remaining one who cries losing the corpses
with the coffins ever- ready
is lying inside.
The city remains dumbstruck.

All over the city which is laid under siege by flags
the last region of people’s defeat
is drawn.
The children
wearing the banned uniforms
are made to stand under the corpses
that keep falling down and scattering on all sides.

The city, all the while wandering without words,
finally hiding itself inside the coffin
the children carrying them
are wandering all over the city.
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20.05.2009
Thanks : VADAKKU VAASAL

A poem in Tamil by Deebachelvan titled
சொற்களற்றலைகிற நகரம்
Translated into English by latha Ramakrishnan