Saheli Chatterjee

by Saheli Chatterjee

BANGLAY LIKHLAM

November 17, 2015 in বাংলা কবিতা

Raat holei sei nostalgia,

baar baar bhule thakte chawa,

koto raat muchhe fela,

koto hashi r khudro prem,

sobkichu gholate hy jawa,

ar mon ke shantona dewa,

khoti ki abar sob harale?

khoti nei notun kore pele,

sobaike chere akjon keno?

sobai thak, akjon harak,

jiboner score-card khali,

tahole duck-out hotei hoy!

tobe parbona to bhulte,

chesta korao je boro kothin,

tobe je ba jara,

amake deyni shara,

tara pochuk tader ghulghuli te!!

dont worry,

tora banchte jara sekhali,

jibone aakar-okartao

toder niyei bosabo!

by Saheli Chatterjee

I WILL SHED MY WINGS……..

November 16, 2015 in English Poetry

I will shed my wings,

Before you cut them short;

I will hold my tears,

Waiting for the draught;

I will loose my heart,

Than have it in a cage;

I will kill myself,

If my life is under siege;

I will loose my strength,

If I see you fall;

All your life in vain,

I promise I’ll stand tall..!

I will give up my nature,

Before you push me to it;

You will realize someday,

All that was not worth it.

But I dream I will fly,

After I clear this mess;

I will feel the freedom,

When life’s no more a race…..

by Saheli Chatterjee

INFINITY

November 16, 2015 in English Poetry

Now at the cornerstone of the endless abyss,

I try to take a step and reach out in the dark—

Lost with no direction, my heart aches;

“Was it forever that dark?”, I question myself,

Memory becomes fantasy and I hardly remember.

Here in the middle of bewilderment, I sigh,

No mirror to face myself and laugh out;

Once there was a Robert Bruce, I tell myself,

But he had the spider to look up to;

No hand around me to relieve the pain!

I stare into the void of nothingness,

Witnessing what feels like excerpts of life,

Waiting for my heart to take a break and let go…..

What do I do to shatter this black spell?

To bring some light and direction back?

But there is still some hope left in me,

Like an imagined beacon from infinity,

That I feel nearing but cannot yet see….

I try to crawl with bruised fingers,

But there seems to be no floor to feel;

Groping the darkness like it was a wall,

I float down to future day by day.

No count of day, no hunger of food,

No humanness left in me in this struggle!