Cholera

Its rainy season

And there is an outbreak of cholera from contaminated water

Cholera procreates cholera which procreates other choleras

The neighborhoods seem like hospital these days

The paths and streets like booby traps

Neighbours have become like pimps

Relatives like spies

If only it were about contaminated water

Then germicides could help, but

The neighborhoods and cities are running on polluted thoughts

To treat cholera choleras interact with themselves

Deliberate among themselves, organize seminars.

Its rainy season

The village neighborhoods are sick with cholera

I am living in the same locality where cholera lives

I too think of cleaning the water-source

But he takes the cess-pool to be spring water

He is used to looking at his face in the muddy water

When comes the rainy season

When winters,

He reaps new harvests of tragedy by sowing cholera

Cholera from contaminated water is for few days

But more dangerous is the cholera of mind/ the cholera of distrust

Cholera of uncertainty.

  

                                                                       

                                                                            translated from 'Haija', Akshar Abhilekh (2010)