Dedicated to
great Poet Kannadasan on his birthday
Aandavan oru naal
Kadai Virithaan
(God one day opened a shop)
By
Kannadasan
Translated by
P.R.Ramachander
(Hear the song, read lyrics in Tamil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlV9MyoI5e0
)
God one day
opened a shop,
And he kept thousands of
things in it,
He told the cost
as per the status of the person,
And he told them to buy
according to their needs.
Ladies came to
buy beauty,
Men came to buy
desire,
Leaders bought
fame from there,
Poets bought lies
from there,
Blind people asked
for eyes to see,
Dumb people asked for words to speak
Relatives wanted
souls of those who are dead,
And some of them asked cost to go to heaven
Human beings came to buy
everything there,
Whatever price quoted
was given by them,
There were none there
to buy love,
By giving their
heart as the cost
