The intern students research with the skeleton

of Cleopatra. Why do you boast of your beauty?

The eyes, with which you cast arrows of glance

at the hearts of thousands of young men and break

their heart, will one day become stagnant like a marble.

So, you, the possessor of prominent eyes, don’t boast.

 

 

 

Most of the powerful persons, who with their roaring voices

would make people stunned, in real sense would make

people fall supplant on the ground, have just mixed with

dust, and some of them are still alive, but they walk

so silently that even grass feel ashamed.

 

 

 

So, don’t feel proud of power.

 

As you know where your destination is, express gratitude

to your creator and the giver of so developed a power of

imagination. Keep obedient and supplant with your

developed imagination and see

if you can use it for the betterment of people.

 

 

 

 

26 December 2005

 

 

‘অহঙ্কার করো কেন?’ কবিতার অনুবাদ

[Translated by Dulal Al Monsur]