Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna

She sashayed towards me
Like an angel
Spreading moonlight
All over the path she treaded
Enchanted I kept staring at her
At last I managed a word, “Kalimera”(Good Morning)
She smiled and held my hand
I felt at that minute;
that was the hand; the holy hand that has been
Guarding me from near and afar, so far!

Why me alone? Every man got a Guardian Angel
unseen and unknown behind him
Walking him carefully through her protective aura

When I saw her for the first time I had that feeling
“What happens to a man, sans a woman
What is a man? Isn’t he a struggling sampan in life-ocean main?
And woman his beacon giving him vision and hope
Who leads him through swirling eddies towards the safest shores

I’m like a burning ruddy night
While lighting my hopes and desires
While dusking my mind-Sun towards the West
While adjusting my falling castles
I turn towards her and seek her arms

The warmth of her love and tenderness
Always so close touching my heart
Sometimes, like the souring up Meditarian tides
Sometimes like the meditative Olympus mount
Sometimes like swirling emotional waves of Panes

Soon after I veneered my imagery and images
With my heavy eye-lids and whispered
“Kallinixta” (goodnight) in her ears
Engulfs me a long reverie
Impaling through my silent-blanket

On this unending earth
Be it that shore or this shore
She knows only to love and nurture
A man and manly instincts
Like the pamphlet of Gorky’s Mother

The summit of woe and distress
Ascend or descend
She alone knows how to make a man happy
And she alone!

Original Telugu:Rama Krishna Perugu
Translation: Mydavolu Venkatasesha Sathyanarayana

End of the poem

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