Jibanananda Das's poem -2:
Shesh Holo Jiboner Shob lenden
Having done with my ledger of life
Jibanananda Das
(Translation: A.H. Jaffor Ullah)Finally, I�m done with the ledger of my life,
Miss Banalata Sen!Where have you gone at this odd hour?
Kingfisher hasn�t neglected its midday sport,
Sarika still returns to the nest,
River has become frothy in exuberance,
Still no sign of you, Miss Bonolata Sen!Haven�t seen anyone like you � nowhere?
Why did you have to leave ahead any of us?
Makes me wonder � why you turned this world
of ours, into a desert wasteland.
(why it had to be you!)
Shattering the wizards�s sorcery
You departed from this earth,
My familiar Miss Bonolata Sen.Many a gloaming must desend over the horizon,
Many a night must we sleep next to a squalor
Many a time must we rouse by wild wind,
The night train must have reached
the station amidst oak and jombu forest,
taking away my night princes, Miss Bonolata Sen.
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This poem appears in the ungrouped (Ogronthito Kobita) poems
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