English Literature – Poetry ☆ Behind the Façade… ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.

We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Behind the Façade… ~”.  We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji (who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages) and his artwork.) 

~ Behind the Façade… ~ 

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A tiny, conceited heart,

with a grand disguise,

Conceals its smallness,

with a pompous guise

 *

It wears a counterfeit cloak

of grandeur and might,

But beneath, its true self, it’s  

lost in the darkest night

 *

With a façade of strength,

it hides its fragile core,

A frangible, weak soul,

with qualities to abhor

 *

It strives hard to appear,

more than it can be,

A masquerade of hidden

mask  of grandiosity

 *

In  its  grand phony schemes

it hides its utter shame,

A  mask  of  confidence  that

proclaims  a  hollow claim

 *

Can it ever shed its fake mask,

and be its authentic self?

Can it ever find the solace in

humility’s  virtuous  wealth?

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM