If You Have...

IF YOU HAVE

If you have
You can float stones, can purchase tones;
Can convert cipher into crores;
Can sink in painted seas, all shores;
And of course,
Can fly above, high above;
With head below and feet above!

If you have….
You can move in public good, now and then,
Without your own currency or coins in hand;
Yes, you can trot all-over the Globe
And stay or lie at motels post;
Can preside over; can with applause inaugurate;
Can driver sermons; can secure honorary doctorate;
Can have garlands; can get played bands;
And can be know-all, can dictate!

If you have…
You can master the art of much ado;
Show as scientific, the magic of touch and go,
And Lo,
You can crown a foreign Linequa in V. I. P. sittings;
Yet to hall your mother-tongue,
Can rush to big crowded meetings;
You can, you can
Proclaim rates deadly high, as Normal-dow,
Can forget Common-man
And masses too; but in public addresses bow!

If you have…
Only if you have…
‘What, Well, What?’–
Questions innocent
Are There, Here, Everywhere;
Answers Silent
Are There, Here, Everywhere.

Translated from his original in Gujarati

–HASIT BUCH