Repost: Parul Khakar's Shav Vahini Ganga translated by Dr Koshy AV (with a few changes)

Parul Khakkar's Shav Vahini Ganga (Corpse bearing/vehicle Ganga.)

Translated by Dr Koshy AV

Don't be sad but 'rejoice', say the corpses in one voice

O King, in your Ram Rajya!

We see the corpses floating in Ganga

Lord, the trees have all become ash

There is not even a speck of a place in the crematorium

There is no undertaker there or people to carry the corpses to the pyre

No one to sit near and cry

To those of us who lost everything, only the dance of death continues around us, O King

In your Ram Rajya, our corpses float around in the Ganga

Spitting smoke and spitting smoke, even the chimney is panting

The virus has caught us and is shaking us

Our bangles are breaking, and our insides are hurting, burning like fire

While the city is burning, the pandit is playing the veena

O King, in your Ram Rajya corpses floating through Ganga too I see

What pomp and power there was in your get up and style earlier

Now the city sees your real face

Say no excuse now but come out in the open and say loudly, loudly

That you are wearing nothing and have no ability and are lazy

And will not rest now at least but act, show us that!

Smoke rings rise and rise to touch the sky, the city is angry and seething

Don't you know that in your kingdom through Ganga the corpses are floating, at all?