On the Other Shore of Words Poem by Sajjad Sharif

On the Other Shore of Words



I'd like to cross over to the other shore of words

I find everything too meaningful, too true
All things marked are transformed into words
That scream out, sweep away and devastate entire generations.
Where is that lake whose eternally still water
Won't ripple even when a stone is thrown into it?

O inarticulate one—Look alive!

Translated from Bangla by Fakrul Alam

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