When Everybody Tells Me I Am Mad Poem by Shamik Kumar Bose

When everybody tells me I am mad
I take no care
when you tell me so
I bring you this world

when everybody makes me cry
I laugh dry
when you doer
I cry more

when everyone jokes at me
I do not shy
when you make so
I sigh

when everybody hates me
me quieten
when you hate me
me dreaden

when everybody likes me
I just thanken
when you love me
I am in heaven

- based on a famous Bengali Song and

an Urdu shairi- 'majal hai ke kahe mujhe diwana, agar tumne kaha hay to koi bat nahi'

in my translation, it is something like -
when everyone tells me mad, I am so angry to find how many heads he
has! When you tell me mad, I am just fallen!

copyright: Shamik Bose 2009