Strikes like a bludgeoning stroke;
Despair pervades the heart
Like misty smoke;
The swan of life
Spouting her blood out
Flutters her wings every moment
As if to leave the body and fly out;
Like the flogging strokes of lightning
Like piercing swords of fire
Like the stinging bite of serpents
The patients feel their inmost pain
Dragging heavily the burden of life;
Their groans fall like rain
Like lashing showers, their cries are
heard;
Silence hurled away
Cut down from the sky above;
This is an abode of unrest;
Agony pours down from everywhere;
You seem like a ray of light
Your heart is like a picture
Exuding sweet perfume;
Your life is a sweet, sonorous poem;
No tedium on your face;
With an unfading smile
Moving briskly like a top
You offer help and care
Moving from bed to bed
Without feeling any discomfort;
Even the
most unbearable stench
You endure,
breathing out
Sweet
perfume like a Jasmin;
Dressed in
white you shine like moonlight;
With mercy
in your eyes
With
sympathy in your words
With tender
feelings in your heart;
With a
benign healing touch
You give
hope to everyone;
You give
them a new taste for life
And add
glowing colors of a rainbow
To their
golden dreams of tomorrow;
Whenever the
patients behold you
They feel
endued with new life;
You make them forget
The despair of yesterday for the rosy tomorrow;
Like
sweet-coated bitter drugs
With
soothing words
You make
them forget
The prick of
your needle;
You are a
candle that burns at both ends;
To burn and
give light is your nature;
To live for
others is your motto;
Oh, Sister!
When I see you
I recall the
sweet-smelling Jasmin
The white
flower of light
That gives
comfort and hope to all.
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In Telugu
original: A. Surya Prakash
Title : Kadile Malle
Translated
by : G.Somaseshu 6th November 2024
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