For You All Poem by Biswajit Goswami

Endless centuries ago, Man, by loving you,
Had stood on society's chest with an arrow to his bow,
Hence, He is silent at else's norm.
In the lull of time, He sleeps in the insides of the earth;
The heart is cudgeled,
Yet the soil still holds on to that endless love.

Still you weep and play your lyre—
Like Religion, worship with an empty heart,
Heed to the lover's reign and soul.
You too would have to lie under this very earth
Bathing your body in the fragnance of jasmine in deep embrace—

Only will then the entirety of the law break

There is nothing nuder than a Blindhood;
Look around with a keen eye: there lies abundant proof.


(Translated by Sushobhan Das)