The Most Dangerous Thing

By Pash

{Translated  from a Hindi translation of the original Punjabi poem to English
by Dubhashi Devdatt  and Shashi Kumar}

The most dangerous thing is not the loot of your labour
The most dangerous thing is not the beating by the police
The most dangerous thing is not treachery or greed

To  get caught  lying down is bad enough
To be rendered scared and speechless is  also bad
But  it is not the most dangerous thing

The most dangerous thing is:
To achieve peace of a corpse
Not to struggle, to bear  everything
To leave the house  for work
And to return home from work
The most dangerous thing is:
For our dreams to die.