Bengali Poetry (Translated)

The Household of Mistakes

So many nights come into life
when we think and think but cannot tell
exactly how much sorrow we must erase
before another morning arrives.

When we yearn deeply but
this heart cannot hold love—it spills over, just so—
then countless tiny moons gather
even in distant deserts.

This heart—
to carry the dead,
to carry the past,
to carry processions of tears,
must swallow so much weeping.

Just as walking the path of dreams requires
small fulfillments of desire,
keeping one's sanity intact
needs some madness too.

Rows of sleepless nights,
alongside houses built of mistakes—
in these two alone do we become human.
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