Portráid

Ná hiompaigh uaim
A uisce
Fan i raon mo shúl
Ná bí ag plobaireacht ná sceith
Bí i do thost go hiomlán
Ciúin go hiomlán

Lig dom dul isteach go domhain ionat
Lig dom do ghuth a chlos ar a laghad
Lig dom tú a bhrath le mo lámha truamhéalacha
Lig dom' theanga do chosa a lí
Lig dom gach atá faoi cheilt i do chroí
A bhrath

A uisce
Athair máthair tiarna
Fan tamall
Is mian liom do phortráid a phéinteáil

Dinkar Manwar

Portrait

Don't turn away from me
Water
Stay within my sight
Don't babble or gush
Be utterly silent
Be utterly still

Let me enter deep into you
Let me at last hear your voice
Let me feel you with my desperate hands
Let my tongue lick your feet
Let me get a sense
Of what all you have been hiding in your heart

Water
My father my mother my lord
Wait for me for a while
I want to paint
Your portrait.

Dinkar Manwar

Translated from the Marathi by Sachin Ketkar