CHOUDHURI SUKUMAR - The long wait

Sitting in the vacant booth
people will now start their usual gossips
no more porcessions, no festoons
no slogans, no flags, nocanvassings
now people will only discuss the election results

Some will say ~
Not the man but money has won there,
There it was terror. There it was power,
That party won there by such a trick
~ some will say puffing the bidi.

And we shall wait, eagerly,
till the end of time, until
from the gathering
a man will rise up to tell us ~
Here has won a man
who has no money, no power, no party
who has no weapons other than love..








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sabur
tr: kamalesh banerjee

CHOUDHURI SUKUMAR

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