The Story of the Four

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. 

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. 
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. 
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. 
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

(This was a text once published in the Reader's Digest magazine. Not aware of the writer.)

POETRY by Pablo Neruda

“something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire
and wrote the first faint line,
faint without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom,
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open.”

From "Poetry", Memorial de isla negra (1964).
Trans. Alastair Reid

කවිය

මා ජීවය තුල යමක්  දැල්වෙන්නට විය,

එක්කෝ උණක්, නැත්නම් අමතක වැ ගිය පියාපත් යුවලක්.

ඉඳින් මම මගේම මගක් සකසා ගතිමි,

වටහා ගනිමින් 

ඒ ගින්න.

ලිවීමි, යාන්තමට ප්‍රථම පද පෙළ

අරුතක් නැතිව දුබලව

අමු විලම්බීත

මෙලෝ හසරක් නොදන්නකු ගේ 

පිවිතුරු බුද්ධියෙන්.

එවිට එක්වරම දිටිමි, මම 

දෙව්ලොව,

දොරගුළු ලිහී

විවරව.

චිලී ජාතික ගායක වික්ටර් හාරා විසින් නෙරුඩා ගේ කවියක් ගීයට නැගූ අවස්ථාවක්.