Cheran Rudhramoorthy (Sri Lanka/Canada) Dr. R. Cheran is Tamil Canadian academic, poet, playwright and journalist. He is a professor at the University of Windsor in Canada. He has authored over fifteen books in Tamil, and his work has been translated into twenty languages. Several volumes of his work have been published in English translation of Burning (Arc Publications, UK). He has performed his poetry at various International Writers’ festivals in the United Kingdom, Singapore, the US, Indonesia, India, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, Ramallah, West Bank, Dubai and Mexico. His plays in English language have been produced and performed in Toronto, Canada, New York, Chicago and New Jersey in the US. Singapore’s modern dance group Chowk has produced and performed a dance play based on his poems titled “The Second Sunrise”
English
TAGESENDE
Würdest du dich eine Weile zu mir setzen?
Die Schatten sind länger,
der Wind ist kühler,
aber deine Sonne wärmt mein Gesicht.
Lass uns über das Leben lachen,
über die Vergangenheit weinen
und auf die Zukunft hoffen.
Noch mehr, sagst du?
Dann setz dich und sag es mir.
Deine Anwesenheit ist genug.
Sei einfach bei mir,
bis dieser Tag zu Ende ist.
FÜLLE
Ich spüre,
wie deine kindliche Freude springt.
Eine Freude so rein,
eine Liebe so unschuldig,
dass die heiligen Engel sich
in Ehrfurcht verneigen müssen.
Dein Gesicht hat einen Glanz,
eine Unverfälschtheit,
die mich nach Hause
in mein Innerstes führt.
Der Schein deiner Echtheit leitet mich
zurück zu dem Glück der Kindheit.
Die Tage, an denen jeder Augenblick
eine Entdeckung war
und ich in Fülle lebte.
Tamil
DAY'S END
Would you sit with me a while?
The shadows are longer,
the wind is cooler,
but your sun warms my face.
Let us laugh about life,
cry about the past
and hope for the future.
Even more, you say?
Then sit down and tell me.
Your presence is enough.
Just be by me until this day ends.
ABUNDANCE
I feel,
your childlike joy leaping.
A joy so pure,
a love so innocent
that the holy angels
must bow down in awe.
Your face has a radiance,
a genuineness
that leads me home
into my innermost being.
The glow of your authenticity leads me
back to the happiness of childhood.
The days when every moment
was a discovery
and I lived in abundance.