Puppet | કઠપૂતળી

By and | 1 October 2016

Translated from the Gujarati to the English by Gopika Jadeja

Histories roar within me
at orders
from their fingertips

A puppet,
I dance on
to fill the empty stomachs
of my tribe

I too
have a story to tell
Large as the sea
but
I am merely

a puppet.

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