Beyond Land and Time

 

 

 

 

The Song of Life

(Jibôn Sôngit)

 

Translated by Faizul Latif Chowdhury

 

 

Lying upon the stretcher perhaps fog clogs your eyes

Don’t worry, death is not another unjust light;

How come then so many people embrace death,

craving a torch like flying ants?

Why would then men compose so many shlokes

to make a ladder to the heaven?

Death today; but did not the matador die in Spain?

He fought like a hero in the sunlight

thinking himself undefeatable

Suddenly he plunged into an eternal night. Yet a Haryal

Verily a Bengal bird accepts death as

the row of bullets appears like a horizon.

 

Yet we embrace day-light like an alcohol dealer

Fill in the goblet ;−

It seems compass, seas, sunlight

Life in effect wiser than death.

They are dead; crumpled between layers of the earth.

Still life gobbles up sun spots− privately like a sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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