ঘরোয়া রাজনীতি, হেলাল হাফিজ/ Ghorowa Rajneeti, Helal Hafiz/ Internal Affairs, Helal Hafiz

ঘরোয়া রাজনীতি

ব্যর্থ হয়ে থাকে যদি প্রণয়ের এত আয়োজন
আগামী মিছিলে এস
স্লোগানে স্লোগানে হবে কথোপকথন।

আকালের এই কালে সাধ হলে পথে ভালবেসো
ধ্রুপদী পিপাসা নিয়ে আসো যদি
লাল শাড়িটা তোমার পরে এসো।

হেলাল হাফিজ

Internal affairs

If all this has been in vain

Come then with the next round of parades

We might talk then, slogan for slogan

In these times, if at all, love lies bleeding on the street

And if at all, you feel that timeless need

Remember to wear that red sari of yours.

June, 2014

(trans, mine)

Artwork: Red Garbage by Francesca Matarazzo di Licosa (The materials used are bags of waste as a metaphor for a past that people want to forget)

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:88051/

When You Call Me by Helal Hafiz/তুমি ডাক দিলে, হেলাল হাফিজ

WHEN YOU CALL ME

Call me once and see how depleted I am

What frantic need I have felt all my life.

When you call me

I will erase every trace of sadness and rot.

I will get there faster than the speed of sound

I will tap the source of the love that has been nurtured for so long.

I will not waste a minute on the way

When you call me

I will transform a desert without borders into a green oasis.

When you say yes,

I will make us a sanctuary with our twin happiness.

When I receive your invitation

I will leave behind everything

And fly towards you unrestrained.

If you agree to give me shelter

I will leave all these people behind

I will be a bird till I die – your silence all I need to live on.

                                                                 by Helal Hafiz