The land of the Nagas,

A culprit,Culprit,The whole world,World,The police and the court,Law and lawyersThat you,YouA culprit,Culprit,A convict,Convict,A criminal,Criminal,You,You notA criminal,CriminalFor me,Me,Maybe,Maybe youA criminal,Convict,CulpritIn the eyesOf law,But you,You notA criminal,You a man,ManAnd this,This society of oursThe real criminal,CriminalAnd you a criminal,Criminal froThe situationsOf life placingYou soUnder.

There where the lovers go about dreaming,Crossing the fields and fallows,The highs and lows,Beneath the hillsBy the side of the rivuletWhich goes trickling down,Meandering through and traversing,Waters falling and gliding,Where the shepherd boys and girls go aboutGrazing the cattle.The marshland full of lilies, lying dotted with,The cattle grazing,Cranes and storks alighting,Settling down and flying away…

As they take to satirizing and satiric portraits,Keep mocking with taunt and jibe,Making fun of, presenting comically,Creating the bubbles of humour,Saying ironically with doublespeakUnaware of it that somebody lies in waitTo satirize him too.If you make a joke of me,I too shall irrespective of itThat satire is corrective and reformative,But satire is revengeful tooAs the…

With the attribute.

Who am I,What my life,Where my home,Who to go,Who to be with,What am I with?Under the starlit skies, the desire to catch the fireflies,To question the twinkling stars,So many decorating the skyway.

Maya for the house and its things,Maya for the daughter.Maya my wife, maya my life,The soul’s maya for this bodyOf clay and dust,Temporary and transitory.Maya my wife and the house,My love for themMaking me possessive ofAnd digressing me.And I in the bonds of maya-moha,Taking for as my own world,Never to be detached and dissociated from,But…