KAVITA ASIA ASIAN POETRY FESTIVAL
19TH OF MARCH 1988
ON A MOON-LIT NIGHT
On a sky-lit night, long before,
The Goddess among goddess, my mother,
Under the honeying full-moon rays,
evened out the softy sands
paving our cottage frontal square,
called me tenderly to her side,
hugging held my light fore-finger,
taught me right, to write the ‘A’-
over and over erasing it,
the mother letter of the alphabet!
And here I am……
destined by providence to hold the pen,
by profession to scribe poems and prose!
But yet I dare, oh Mother Tamil,
You are now in my hands a sword
to fight the battle of the daily trampled
hungry, clotheless souls in pain -
Unto that commitment I surrender
at your feet, beloved Tamil, my mother !
- Sillaiyoor Selvarajan
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