gulab khandelwal selected poems

Forgive me
That I could not go where I had to go,
Could not do what I had to do.
The greenery of the forest encircled my feet
And the lovely vines, coming forward,
Grasped my hands;
As soon as I stayed to rest a while,
I fell asleep,
And the river that had started for the ocean,
Dried up in the arms of a desert.