[Transcreation] Shadow

When it elongates, enlarges

and then shrinks itself,

the Shadow isn’t biding time,

for all you know.



It might just be its efforts

to cover the sorrow and pain

of having to meekly live

for a lifetime

underneath one man.




A poem in Malayalam by Veerankutti
Transcreation by Vijay © 28th February, 2008