Houses Of Sand

HOUSES OF SAND

Houses of sand,

We built in the childhood,

On the river beach,

Tucked them away in

The vault of our dreams

Only to let them pass

From our memory

Houses of sand,

We built again,

After so many years,

On the next stopover

On the river beach

Children looked at curiously

To see us building them,

They built their own

Houses of sand,

On their own river beach,

For their own dream vault

The river went on flowing

But we turned back,

Towards the beach of

Our childhood,

Back and farther back,

We searched for the

Dream houses in the river sand

We found

Father’s childhood dreams

In our dream vault

Written and translated from Hindi by Lalit Surjan