A Song of Kazi Nazrul Islam

[liza Sharmin]

A Song of Kazi Nazrul Islam

Translated by Liza Sharmin

(Khelicho e Bishwa loye, Birato shishu aanomone)

You are such an enormous child
Busy playing with the universe
Creating an destroying like a doll’s house
Unmindfully, in a pin drop silence.

In the barren wide wide sky
You are meditating luxurious thoughts
Of developing and massacring things you like
Unmindfully, in a pin drop silence.

The sun, the moon and thousands of stars
Are left there at your crimson feet.

Oh great generous omnipotent soul
Constant in all well and woe
Laughing and playing to yourself
Unmindfully, in a pin drop silence.

[Sharminte]

Unmindfully, in a pin drop silence.