Saturday, January 17, 2015

A visit

A Visit
အလည္​တစ္​​ေခါက္​
.....................

Gone are the days
when you could walk on water.
When you could walk.

​ေန႔မ်ားစြာကုန္​ဆံုးလာ
သင္​ ​ေရ​ေပၚမွာလမ္​း​ေလ်ွာက္​ႏုိင္​တ​ဲ့အခါ
သင္​ ​ေလ်ွာက္​ႏုိင္​တဲ့တစ္​​ေန႔မွာ.....

The days are gone.
Only one day remains,
the one you're in.

​ေန႔မ်ားစြာကုန္​ဆံုးခဲ့၏
တစ္​ရက္​သာက်န္​႐ွိ
သင္​ ႐ွိ​ေနတဲ့တစ္​ရက္​တိတိ....

The memory is no friend.
It can only tell you
what you no longer have:

မွတ္​ဥာဏ္​ထဲမွာမိတ္​​ေဆြမပါ
သင္​့ကိုသာ​ေျပာျပႏိုင္​တာ
သင္​့မွာ မ႐ွိ​ေတာ့မယ္​့အရာ....

a left hand you can use,
two feet that walk.
All the brain's gadgets.

ဘယ္​ဘက္​လက္​ကိုသံုးပါ​ေတာ့
ႏွစ္​​ေပအကြာ​ေရာက္​ခဲ့​ေပါ့
ဦး​ေနာက္​ရဲ႕​ေစရာ​ေနာ့.....

Hello, hello.
The one hand that still works
grips, won't let go.

​ေခၚသံကိုၾကားရလား
႐ွင္​သန္​ဆဲလက္​တစ္​ဖက္​ရဲ႕အား
ထြက္​မသြား​ေစနဲ႔ဆုပ္​ကိုင္​ထား

That is not a train.
There is no cricket.
Let's not panic.

အဲဒါ ရထားတစ္​စီးမဟုတ္​ဘူး
ဘာအင္​းဆက္​မွမ႐ွိဘူး
အထိတ္​တလန္​ ့ မျဖစ္​ရဘူး

Let's talk about axes,
which kinds are good,
the many names of wood.

ပုဆိန္​​ေတြကို​ေရြးရ​ေအာင္​
အ​ေကာင္​းဆံုးကဘာလဲငါ့​ေကာင္​
သစ္​​အမည္​​ေတြကလည္​းမ်ား​ေျမာင္​

This is how to build
a house, a boat, a tent.
No use; the toolbox

ဒါဟာ တည္​​ေဆာက္​မႈပညာပဲ
အိမ္​တစ္​လံုး ​ေလွတစ္​စီး တဲတစ္​တဲ
ဘာကိရိယာမွမသံုးစြဲ

refuses to reveal its verbs;
the rasp, the plane, the awl,
revert to sullen metal.

သူ႔ရဲ႕အျပဳအမူ​ေတြကို​ေဖာ္​ျပဖို႔ျငင္​းဆန္​
တံစဥ္​း ​ေရြ​ေပၚ နဲ႔ ဆူးခြၽန္​
မူလအတိုင္​းမျဖစ္​​ေတာ့တဲ့သတၱဳ​မွန္​

Do you recognize anything? I said.
Anything familiar?
Yes, you said. The bed.

တစ္​စံုတစ္​ရာကိုမွတ္​မိလား​ေမးပါရ​ေစ
သင္​ရင္​ႏွီးတဲ့တစ္​ခုခု​ေလ
အိပ္​ယာ လို႔ သင္​က​ ေျဖ

Better to watch the stream
that flows across the floor
and is made of sunlight,

စမ္​း​ေခ်ာင္​း​ေလးကို​ေစာင္​့ၾကည္​့တာပိုရင္​ခုန္​
ၾကမ္​းျပင္​​ေပၚျဖတ္သြားတဲ့​ေရမႈန္​မႈန္​
​ေန​ေရာင္​ျခည္​နဲ႔တလက္​လက္​စံု

the forest made of shadows;
better to watch the fireplace
which is now a beach.

အရိပ္​​ေတြနဲ႔မႈိင္​းညိဳ႕ညိဳ႕သစ္​​ေတာက
မီးဖိုျဖစ္​ဖို႔​ေစာင္​့ၾကည္​့ရတာလွပ
အခု​ေတာ့ ဒါဟာ ကမ္​း​ေျခတစ္​ခုဘဝ

Margaret Atwoo ၏ ကဗ်ာကို ဦးၫြတ္​သည္​။

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