Bengali Poetry (Translated)

The Will to Live

I wanted to love you in exchange for everything I had,
but look, how I've forgotten... I have nothing at all to call everything!

I have a heart like a little sparrow, a body soft as a rabbit,
countless drops of tears, a pair of eyes tired from staying awake night after night,
and a few tablets of sleeping pills.
Tell me, do any of these have market value?
Why would anyone buy these things, tell me?

In fierce fever I find calm thinking of you,
I chase away the tremors chanting your name.
I convince myself, I must stand up, I must live for you.

When did I ever want to live so desperately before? I can't even remember!
Now I seem charged to my throat with the burden of staying alive!
As long as I live, the possibility remains that I might hold you close
and breathe in your scent. I will wait.

You don't believe in telepathy or anything like that. I do. Right now you're sitting by my head, I can see you.
The fever will break soon, stay a little longer; just like this, in silence.
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