Life would depart
Leaving the body lying on earth
Someone would cry
Someone would laugh
I would keep watching everything
I won’t die
At the death of my body
I stay alive
For long
(Translated from assamese by Bibekananda Choudhury)
why hasn’t anyone ever told me
so many lives passed before me
yet nobody came back to tell me
what it’s going to be like for me
no hints or clues laid out for me
only the uninformed swear to me
the experts in robes promise me
by repeating age-old fables to me
only by dying I’ll know
only by dying I’ll know