छोटी सी पोती · Little Granddaughter

English

All I had asked you was
how and why all this is,
you or I.
My little granddaughter
plays all over the house, in every corner,
unaware,
in places we have perhaps not looked at for years,
playing such games full of wonder
that they wake the childhood asleep inside us.
Perhaps only then do we feel
that we have lost something,
that beyond joy and sorrow and this world there is something more,
where there is no time,
only a game full of delight,
a game within a game.