'RIVALS'

(Originally in Assamese by Nilim Kumar,titled 'Pratidwandi',Published by 'Seuji Seuji' ,Nilim Kumaror Kabita Samagra ak,2003,Translated by Anurag Kotoky)

You asked

Remove your shirt

I showed

Twenty four ribs

Didnot match yours

You asked

Raise your hands

Raised my hands

And touched the sky

Didnot resemble yours

You asked

Open your mouth

I opened

The roaring conch-shell

Unlike yours

Everything would have matched

Had I been,like you

Stout

Humpbacked

Dumb