Khondoker Shajahan Raj

They ask me why I fade and pine,
And seem oppressed with woe?
They say what care now can be mine,
To cloud my youthful brow?
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Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
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It was never so easy to say-
The change you made;
If I am alive now, then I was dead.
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I, the Bengali poet, Raj-
Captured in the arrogant garage,
Be surrounded with the windy quarter howl
Linnet searching face, mind, everywhere crawl
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I left my body unfed
I lost in the numbness of conscience
I got myself a total love-less
I left my one eye frenzied.
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Provoked, I lifted my eyelids
And hold a tight grip upon your face,
It seemed a whole-night-dream to me
As if I were engaged in the 'happiness-seeking' race.
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A long day I have passed
Winkling about here upon the shore of you
I mysterious chain of life
Still searches for the queue.
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That one drunken Night
Where two dogs were all engaged
In the deathly inhumane fight.
How I wish I could bark and go
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Far away from my heart-
That only beats for you-
And far from your eyes,
I and my love fly
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How thy adventure has reached to my door
In this tempestuous night of the year!
Endless cry of the sky has snatched my sleep
And waiting for you,
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I saw the skeleton wide open
Like you have known it till ages,
I liked the room petty much
Cause it had many windows;
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Let me fly like a bird
And my soul a kite.
Little have I known this soul-
My shackled mind's tired of secured
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I saw the dog barking over a child
The child formed with some
unnecessary blood and flesh
Of his parents
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What will be our words
When we'll meet again?
What will you take
To ornament your dream?
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It must be some disease I have
To feel so lonely like this,
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The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, -
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.
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Life walks in the dark path of
Birth and birth.
You had just known one
In this dreary Earth.
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I have now my
Crossed identity;
Of imposed inferiority.
Yes, I'm addressing you.
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