Guna
Moran
- GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
Guna Moran is an Assamese poet and critic. His poems are being published
in various international magazines, journals, webzines and anthologies. He lives
in Assam, India.
GEOGRAPHY AND
HISTORY
Original : Assamese: Guna Moran
Translation ::
Bibekananda Choudhury
Birds learnt to fly
After reading geography
I learnt to fight
After reading history
The avian has a limitless
circumference of excursion
Can move to various places at
ones’ will
History is embedded in
geography
So the birds
Chose geography to history
And
Rather than nestling
permanently at one place
Learnt to make the entire world
its abode
There is no better travel than
flying
There is no better knowledge
than travel
Hence the birds are wise and
non-violent
But the scope of my movement
Is quite narrow and fixed
Even if I wish
I cannot go elsewhere
Like the birds
If I apply force to break the
limit
Blood would flow because of
border crossing.
I made an aircraft
After the birds flying in the
sky
And converted the sky into an
battlefield
Now the game of war
Being played in two
battlefields
The count of history in terms
of win and loss
Has increased in the valley of
death
The new fighters too
Followed the path of
yesteryears
Reading history books.
Thereafter too did not
understand the value of geography
Of course
It is not an easy task
To learn about geography
Hence history got detached from
other’s bosom
And turned into an individual
subject
And the preamble of battle
practice
Came along by birth.