Tyranny

I know what you are

You’re an actor, performer

Painting yourself in the white light

Detested the wretched

Distance yourself from the low-life

When doing right’s not right enough

You flex your heart or you’re giving up

The high ground to me

We say we want to wait to blame

But I don’t think we do

We’re all afraid to be the one who’s

Late to choose the greater truth, and

We say we want to be the changе

Then we throw them to thе wolves to feel

When all is done, we’re in the right

The side of history

You know, they won’t grow

So bathe in your light

Dismiss that there might be a dissent

Hold truths we deem self-evident

(Don’t let it go)

Be oh so right to stay above it

Above where I am for the ground we covet

(Don’t give it up to me)

We say we want to wait to blame

But I don’t think we do

We’re all afraid to be the one who’s

Last to choose the vaster truth, and

We say we want to be the change

Then we throw them to the wolves again

We’re right, we’re always right, we swear we’re right

It’s tyranny

Flaunting your righteousness

Cast a foe to frame against you

Have you nothing more to give?

Lauded you call them out

No favor you reap to call them in

Lacerated, we betray our kind

Chances lost to guide them

To right them

Throw them to the wolves to feed

Not planting the seeds

নিস্পৃহ, আমার এ শরীরে

এত আলো, অযাচিত, কে জ্বালালো?

নিস্পন্দ, অবসন্ন বিষণ্ণতা

আমায় ঘিরে থাকে

অনাহুত চিৎকার!

নিস্পৃহ, আমার এ শরীরে

অভিশপ্ত

নিস্পৃহ, আমার এ শরীরে

কত স্বপ্ন!

অপূর্ণতার শৃঙ্খল, ভেঙে দাও!

Detached from this form of mine

Who, unsought, kindled all these lights?

Mute, depleted sorrow

Surrounding me

Unbidden screams!

Detached from this form of mine

Ill-fated

Detached from this form of mine

So many dreams!

Shackled to incompleteness—

Break away