raat'er upor raat jome jaay
chnaad-er upor chnaad..
andhokaar-e chhoRiye thaake
mon haraabar fnaad..

mon-er aami mon-er tumi-
mon-er knaacha-paaka,
mon-er sathe aaRi holeo
mon-er sathei thaaka..

Don't try and don't quit,
that's the best I can say.
People who love you
and people who need you
and people you love
and those you hate
come to the same thing.
No matter how you turn,
you can never turn fast
or far enough.
There is no escaping
the ten directions
or ten thousand things,
even when you die.

- Peter Levitt

You spend so much of your time
expecting to become
someone else
always someone
who will be different
someone to whom a moment
whatever moment it may be
at last has come
and who has been
met and transformed
into no longer being you
and so has forgotten you

meanwhile in your life
you hardly notice
the world around you
lights changing
sirens dying along the buildings
your eyes intent
on a sight you do not see yet
not yet there
as long as you
are only yourself

with whom as you
recall you were
never happy
to be left alone for long
- W. S. Merwin