INBEI INBEI. INCHANG INCHANG

Inbei, inbei. Inchang, inchang.

Inbeila selang mu, inchangla selangbo?

Laampui maanga ingai kaamthangni

Kasakla hunglangmu, kathweila talangbo?

Onglangmu?  Selangbo?

Sunpha kasia ba thoudarwe.

Sikpha butaangnu kadou ding?

Phaanglo misa tangem thouna,

Bani bongkhon kaisip thang ongsarwe.

Bathou thanglat ro anu,

In ongnu kathah ding.

Lumikle Loktwan lila tadingbarwe.

Inchan ani mikphaap swak mak ongni?

Kekho deta ga kalumme;

Anu nabalumhsat cho inchanbo?

Rinthang ngo aniya bakaan sabi

Apu inpui inteng baonu mangman ne.

Rwan , rwan gonthou loidarwe.

Ani, ani heizaza!

Sunkazon nu manle pimuthango

Ei hweiye achaat Inpui ding krianga.

Sangwan razana intone?

Sangwan rachingna intone?

Rakhanu sangwan le hungdamzwe.

Apu chemzap, apa kehiak mumak ka

Anu nakehiak sui kadimga hungnaye.

Anungla hungnu maanbe anu aisia chaplune.

Lungning lianthou, sungle lianthou

Ani chunle baanswak, kasanuna

Lumikswak lumikta hung.

Bakuwa lungkhon , Lwanzaang kapan be ambasia dam rwe.

Manukwa, tuipuikwa na nangthou darwe sui hweithang ding?

Into zodi anu wo asung riangre ye

Sungsa nu meila bachoi thango.

Zongminnu leithwan balaan thango

Kabaannu takan khut mak balei

Ningting raan katwak ngam ga lungo rithoi yo.

Anu nang talei laza phanglu

Sangbaan kalaak pantwan lune.

Apa nang sangbaan za phaanglu

Talei khun doulune.

Lungpui bi inkam langle maak

Bakaanzuba loi hung narwe di.

Sangwan heiza, mising heiza di’

Basing sem ongmang bo?

Ringnu ringzoklang ringnu,

Patso meiri ngaiga talei thot sia khit khit.

Jisu ba hungnong lu zungrwa

Ani balumsat na ramwan raan khat la.

Inchang, inchang, inbei inbei!

Ingai selang theimak lungning kabaap ongbi

Rwan ula kadambi

Ani cham ani ket kai kale zodi.

Puithangnu Pa hungrwe

Rithoi saangkra lwakrizo

Zingnu na hwamlem hungmak balei

He anu Inpui.

Free Translation
"Left left, Right right
where should i go
Left or Right?
Should  i go up, or down?
Should i sit down or walk?"

NB: This poem was published in Kala-Khwanbaang, an annual magazine of Inpui Students' Union, Delhi. 2014