Tamil original : R. THANIKKODI
In English : PANNEERSELVAN ATHIBA
Either burial or cremation I am the doer,
when I do help to deload the body
the 'ambalathar 'warns me in a harmful voice
not to touch
The same happened that day
when I put the cane basket
on the body of the half-leg Gounder
to collect the rice poured ,
somebody relegated me
with the words suspected
the physic virtue of my mother
When I request to raise the cremating wage
'Konar' says to do the commercial sex broking
to earn more
What to do : What to do ?
Up to the time
when my son .studying with free uniform
becomes a person with self reliance
I should fire these bodies badly smelt
with a firing stomach!
Belongs to none , badly smelt
are fired as the caste,
but the caste is not fired:
Nothing happens in the height
of the persons
firing the human lives
Even the area of depressed
ignores the cremater.
Of the Lord Siva
and of the Hanuman
who can justify
the trial with the fire.
Should we fire the lives
to get the life ?
Should we ash the things
to obtain the Dharma?