Your face smiles in welcome
Speak
to me Andrea
Look
your certificate
Has
come from Goa University
‘Runners-up
in football’ it says.
But
you were a winner in life.
The
silence in your village
is
deafening.
Coconut
trees bow their heads
in
mourning.
Shrubs,
rain-soaked fields, pebbles
Tell
of your happy days.
The
narrow road sulks,
waiting
for your footsteps.
But
on the swaying curtain in the hallway
The
skulls are laughing.
Andrea,
you taught us to love
To
live and to leave
Time
hangs heavy on this day of ours.
Mary, Queen
Beauty of Carmel
Pray
for us.
(21
June 2013
Nuvem
village, Goa)
The following is a free translation of the poem by Ms Akalpita Desai:
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The following is a free translation of the poem by Ms Akalpita Desai:
The English version was published in Navhind Times, Buzz, Panjim, Goa on 27 June 2013. The Konkani version was published in Sunaprant, Margao, the Konkani daily on Sunday 21 July 2013. Visual: diamantespace.com
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