By Marzia Rahman
Rendition is tough. In a way, paradoxical.
One must pay attention to every detail. Moreover, it should flow well. A mountain spring swishing into sea. In this arduous journey, clarity shouldn’t be lost. But it does and later washes up on some far away shore.
How would one translate six hundred refuges in a sinking boat? Who’d take them—the sea or the shore? Who is the better editor of human sorrows?
Buried under their own pain and pathos, people refuse. The sea proves friendly, filling the white foams with poetry. Too many of them.
Rendition is done. Waiting for publication.
Powerful imagery in this translation metaphor. A brilliant rendition and fitting tribute to this tragic loss of life.
Wow! What a fantastic expression of human tragedy.
Thanks dear!
Enjoyed reading the flash; it’s powerful one.
Thanks!