From the Cradle to the Grave/Dawn to Dusk

By Kazi Rosy

Sensational Sacrifice is needed

To gain any victory

Endless Efforts to be given

To get any success

Selfless soulful love to be devoted

To gain any   achievement

When the crops harvested

Makes those people indomitable

For the patience

They have shown for.

Touch they the flag to raise in honour

With the tender love from the nature.

Bangla in Mother Bangla, and on this very earth

Victory and liberty they are marching with

Walking, slowly,

From the cradle to the grave/Dawn to dusk.

Thirty lacks freedom fighters martyred

Three lacks women, the   humiliation, the disgrace

Bubbling blood

To utter the name Bangladesh.

May be any mother or father

Or brother sister

Still staying behind the doors

For   the hope of change.

The war was over though they

Continue counting the after days of ‘71

 To be changed.

We have to perceive, we have to apprehend

 Any shout, slogan or lament

What it is from and why.

Translation : Fatema Zohra Haque