ARE YOU HERE
STILL?
“KIVI”
When I think that you are gone, gone indeed,
To where legs do not reach
Nor eyes follow, nor eyes touch
On, Are you here, within me
Embraced by my thoughts
Entombed in my heart
As a silent fount
As a thin thread,
As a tiny atom,
Are you
Are you here, within me?
Translated from Tamil by Bala.