A Beautiful Land     by Hideo Yokokawa

for Aftab Seth

Showered by the flooded sunbeams
Sitting on Deccan
Resting our elbows on Himalayas
We drink together the water of Ganges from a ladle -
A supreme taste.

Looking far beyond Ocean
Listening to your passionate Mahabarata
I think of Yakushi coincidentally

Watching the faraway future
Beyond time and space
Our eyes shine.

O! Bharat
A beautiful land.

( In memory of our Bilingual Book of Poetry
"Pillars of A Landscape" )

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