Dina Nath Nadim

1916 – 1988 / Srinagar, Kashmir / India

A Thin Stream

A thin stream
flowed down the hill
like a king.
A twig was its crown.
The river will overflow its bank
and
shake the earth.
After a splash
the twig got stuck against a mound of sand.
Beauty is no slave to hollowness.
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