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Do You See What I See?
Whenever I played this game
In my childhood,
To be honest,
I could never see most things
That my peers could.
Which is why
I never managed to win the game.
Now it is different.
Now my peers do not see anything,
And I see everything clearly.
Yes, I do see them all.
But what good is that anyway?
Whenever I try to tell someone
What I see,
One springs up
And asks anxiously,
‘Could you but not do without
Seeing such things?
Or do you wish to
put me in trouble too?’
—
Bappa Datta © August 2021
Based on ‘Ekhon Shob Dekhi’ by Nirendranath Chakravarty
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