Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
V. ZVYAGINTSEVA
I write as I breathe.
I can鈥檛 write as others want.
I hasten to share
That ecstasy, rapture,
That pain of mine.
Probably I am not right
Thus before all.
Words are not necessary
About deeds outstripping time!
Who am I all-myself?
I live in this vast world
Not alone, not the two of us,
Hiding in secluded corner.
It鈥檚 not such a time
To live only in one鈥檚 own soul,
It is necessary
To dip the tip of my pen
In the large sea of life.
But nevertheless friends
(Perhaps because of this sin)
Take leave of me,
And indeed, I鈥檓 also a particle
Of this age
Of course, I sin
That鈥檚 the fate of man!
I write as I breathe,
But I breathe.
The air of the age.
鈥�Translated from Russian by G. K. G. Joshi