Shomoye Choleyi Jaay (The Time Passes) by Tagore is a humorous poem by Tagore in the collection Khapchhara (Eccentric) published in 1936.
THE TIME PASSES
The time passes
Daily in complaints
While Bhupu rests his head
On a pillow, full of anxious feints.
He suspects
His wristwatch isn’t great;
He has stopped winding it
till it stopped dead.
The time-hands don’t move,
But it stays strapped to his wrist.
To satiate Bhupu’s eternal,
Incessant need for rest,
The sun seems to shine relentlessly
While the watch indicates
Five in the morning permanently
on its glassy dial face.
It seems the night is ablaze
With a polish of laziness,
That is why he lies delighted
On his bed with happiness.
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This poem has been translated from Bengali by Mitali Chakravarty with editorial input by Sohana Manzoor
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