A Day with Robert Frost

Translated By Alam Mahbub
                     
The existence of water, the discovery of fire�" rubbing stone against stone, humanity built its modern civilization.

Ice melts into vast oceans, a world of water without end. 

We fill the hollows, the ponds, and make them places to live.

Have we ever stopped to think�" is this really what it means to live?
For the sake of survival, we build roads and highways, green fields of grain; one day, the anthills, the puimacha, the songs of birds will lie abandoned, obsolete as solid fragments of stone.
Lead scatters through the air, burning the settlements, scarring the faces of people.

A day, on a video call with Robert Frost, 
I learned�" he told me:
Water and fire will destroy the Earth.