I notice all the doors closed.
When I dare open them all,
the capitalists frown at me addressing as blind.
Blood within by breast gets silently injured.
My eyes are full of dreams for rice.
When I demand to have my dreams fulfilled,
the capitalists shout saying, ‘Wild ! Wild !’
When I pick up scythe at hand to harvest paddy,
they cry, ‘it’s the most vile work!’
Yet the sun rises in the sky in the new year.
A bird of eternal peace calls to me in my dreams.
Getting up from bed, I now on the way
to look for that blue bird.
I don’t know where and how far she is.
I wish I were all day long a body-gourd of her .
Had I surrendered my body to her in a solitary
place !
[Translated by Sayeed Abubakar]