<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578021" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Request</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun that you stole <br>Was mine.<br>The house that you threw into darkness,<br>Was mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sunshine that smiles in your home, is mine.<br>My life is bleak without it,<br>The odor of my grief is heavy on it,<br>It was mine yesterday and is mine today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is I, bereft of light, who am its father.<br>It is my fire that is embedded in its limbs.<br>The smell of my sun is in it,<br>The sun that was stolen from me in broad daylight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you cannot be blamed for this theft.<br>The sun has been stolen in every era.<br>An afternoon has always died,<br>Weeping for the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, lightless, beamless, have a request,<br>I, a faithless father, stand at your door.<br>Let me place a sun upon your forehead,<br>And beg you for my sunlight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, who died long ago, beg you to bestow this on me.<br>Never utter my name again in the sunlight.<br>If ever some ray asks a question, remain silent,<br>Or call me a ‘black sun' and let it go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the request of a father of sunlight.<br>From this day, on my sunshine is dead to me <br>Along with the sun it is yours now,<br>Wherever it smiles, is the home if its father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun that you stole <br>Was mine.<br>The house that you threw into darkness,<br>Was mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Translated from 'Arjoi' by Suman Kashyap]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shiv+Kumar+Batalvi">Shiv Kumar Batalvi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578021" data-title="The Request de Shiv Kumar Batalvi" data-description="The sun that you stole Was mine. The house that you threw into darkness, Was mine. The sunshine that smiles in your home, is mine. My life is bleak without it, The odor of my grief is heavy on it, It was mine yesterday and is mine today. It is ..."></div> </div> </div>

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