অঙ্ক (Math)
Why are you analysing for the whole day?
As if my mind is math!
It’s ‘mind’ dear, way more complicated.
You can’t read it so easily.
So, it will be better if we stay quiet
And just look at the sky.
If you are always concerned about
The basic physics of the spectrum,
You will miss the pleasure of watching
Colours which are covering the sky.
Why to find the things which are meant to be lost?
Why to interpret the things which are baffling?
It’s life, not the math.
You can’t solve it just because you want to.
Let leave something mystified.
Is it too important to explain everything?
সুর (Tune)
I wish I could tell you
Some of the stories.
But I can’t,
Because I am afraid.
I am afraid of
Interrupting the tune
Which has just been started
To play for us.
Those are not lullabies.
It will not help you to sleep.
Rather you may go through
Some sleepless nights.
I wish not to disturb
Your enchanting night.
I don’t want to make it
Painful restless for you.
So, I am keeping those
Broken-dream stories within me only.
সৌভাগ্যবতী (Lucky girl)
Oh Girl,
You are so lucky.
Because you have born,
Your mother had not to
Lie on bed of abortion room
Even after knowing
You are coming.
Really, very lucky you are.
You have got
The chance to go to college.
Your progressive family believes
Girls should be educated
Just like boys.
I must say
Lady luck is with you.
You have got a job and
Lucky enough to continue.
Because your family believes
Nowadays girls should be responsible
Just like boys.
You are really lucky my dear.
Because even after giving birth
To a girl child
Your husband kisses you on forehead
And tells you
‘For me girls are
Just like boys’.
And suddenly you wake up
From the dream of being lucky.
You remember,
You wanted to be known
Just as a 'human'.
Just as a 'human'.
Instead you have registered your name
In a race
Where in every moment
You have to prove
Girls are not weak
Girls can do everything
Just like boys.
All those frozen agonies
From your hearts come out
And flow from your eyes.
You tightly hold your daughter
With all of your affections.
And suddenly your entity
Of being a woman rises up.
You start to realise
You have to be way more careful
As a mother of a girl child.
Alas! Also in this ‘birth’
Your wish to be lucky
just as a ‘human’
got muffled by
‘Oh dear, you are a lucky girl’.
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