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"The boy under the orange tree" ("তৰা"-৬)



Life isn't fair

Life is not beautiful

The old man whines

Life is melancholic

And a broken poem too

Life is to die

And is all about to cry

For the dejections and all the rejections

Life is melancholic, a broken poem

The old man whines, then he retires

There a boy comes in his dream

A little sweet boy

With bright blue eyes

And ginger red hair

Sitting under the orange tree

And staring at the sky

The tree blossoms after the night's shower

With its fragrance all in the air

The boy giggles

As the wind tickles

Sings the song of life

That the man thought, was lost forever

Do not whine, come to me

Let us sing together the song of joy

At the man said the boy

Then he touches and kisses the man's hand and the dream vanishes

The man wonders

Who the boy was

In the sky, he saw a cloud

With a silver lining around

To his surprise the man realized

The tree is still there at his yard

With all its fragrance in the air

And the boy?

The boy was just the little him

Realizing which makes him to grin

The old man now sits under the tree

That blossoms after the night's shower

With its fragrance all in the air

This is happiness, he says

This is life, he says

This is what love is

Says the old man, the boy smiles at him

And there begins this story, with

The boy, the man and an orange tree.

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