Please give this document to your sister.
This, a sealed blue envelope, I hand it over to
you.
There is a document inside;
What document?
Inside this envelope,
There is a beating heart!
Please give this document to your sister.
This is not a poem,
I have stopped confining
Her picture to rhymes!
This is not a letter,
I have given up
Weaving her love in words!
She refused all my love
While I was alive,
Now she must indeed
Already her love weighs upon me,
I have to lay it down!
Please give this document to your sister,
Here, in this document,
While she was combining herself in front of the
mirror
The husband that she dreamed of,
The picture of the same dying husband-there is a living desire!
Please give this document to your sister.
Here love has been maintained
And ornamented
Only with the quality of being a man!
And then
From your side
Say this too-
That brother-in-law has loved her
Forever and forever!
Translated by:
Padma
Devkota
