Featured Poem by Prabal Kumar Basu

We couldn’t say

We are not being able to tell Each other What we want to Either you or me

It ‘s important that we get to say those As we might not see each other for many days to come

We will have to leave for our destined isolation soon And wait for the whistle to blow Maybe all roads of communication would be closed You will stay very close to the mountains And feel lonely on a deserted road You ll get wet quite often While standing under a tree Maybe someday the camp will be shut down Everything will become normal again These words will then have no significance We ‘ll feel, maybe we did the right thing by not saying anything

Yet those are the most important words We need to tell each other now. But neither of us can. Translated by Barnali Roy

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