IF YOU HAVE

If you have

You can float stones, can purchase tones;

Can convert cipher into crores;

Can sink in painted seas, all shores;

And of course,

Can fly above, high above;

With head below and feet above!

If you have….

You can move in public good, now and then,

Without your own currency or coins in hand;

Yes, you can trot all-over the Globe

And stay or lie at motels post;

Can preside over; can with applause inaugurate;

Can driver sermons; can secure honorary doctorate;

Can have garlands; can get played bands;

And can be know-all, can dictate!

If you have…

You can master the art of much ado;

Show as scientific, the magic of touch and go,

And Lo,

You can crown a foreign Linequa in V. I. P. sittings;

Yet to hall your mother-tongue,

Can rush to big crowded meetings;

You can, you can

Proclaim rates deadly high, as Normal-dow,

Can forget Common-man

And masses too; but in public addresses bow!

If you have…

Only if you have…

‘What, Well, What?’–

Questions innocent

Are There, Here, Everywhere;

Answers Silent

Are There, Here, Everywhere.

Translated from his original in Gujarati

–HASIT BUCH

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