Shelly Sengupta
Count your life by smiles not by tears,
Count your age by strength of dreams not years,
Let your eyes shine with the glitz of future
Live your life with pleasure not with fear,
Sooner or later life is going to be better,
And the dark shadows will then be traitor…
And at last I see light
And it’s like fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it’s like the sky is new
And it’s warm and real and bright,
And the world has somehow shifted,
All at once everything looks different,
Now that I see you!
[Shally Sengupta is a Bangladeshi poet and literary activist. A lecturer of Bangla literature and language at the Cambrian School and College Dhaka, Mrs. Sengupta is the Chairperson of Root Bangladesh, a cultural organization that works with Bangladeshi and foreign writers and artists.]