Bengali Poetry (Translated)

When Speech Itself Is Sin

Whatever happens tonight, I will remember.
How I sleep with you hidden in my chest,
how you come to wipe away my tears...all...all!

Still I cannot say anything...
Whatever I say
becomes sin.

When you ask me this and that,
I say quite easily, I don't know.
Why should I tell you,
if telling itself means sin!

What I carry with me now as I live
is called wordlessness.
When the voice becomes a skilled weapon of death,
when processions of sin-born words
cling to the corners of lips,
then kicking away sin's pleasure—that is life!
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