New Year Poem by Akham Nilabirdhwaja Singh

Although you were near me
I was looking for you
behind the trees,
at the paddy field
and at the pond
its water once clean
where you came to fetch water
with a brass pot in your hands.

Today the song of the bird pee thadoi
is not heard,
the chigonglei plants once grown
at your fench and my courtyard
are seen nowhere,
some other species of birds,
plants and also fishes
vanished from our land.

Yet my dream
of a happy New Year
has not gone.