I want to write so many things, but suffocate and die from the lack of words to make them known. The storms they call feelings that rage within me— I don't know the right medium to describe them. What good did all this studying do? Or must I now cast doubt on the Bengali language's treasury of words? Where shall I write? To whom shall I write? Should I write a little note, or a long, important letter? How much longer will my soul cry like a small bird? What name should I give this anguish? Illness? What medicine for this illness? What will heal it? Why do they call something an illness when there's no medicine to cure it? Then what is death?
The Name of the Illness
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