Masud Pathik, PhD

Poems in English / Village philosophy

Son-in-Law to Weeping

I badly want to marry the daughter of Weeping,set up house,and farm tears without a pause.

Exporting tears by the ton,I would rise into a multinational trader.

Owner of many rivers and seas,I would say: I too am a great lover.I would take every product of sorrow hostageand hold it in the warehouse.

It is my great wish that Weeping should be my fond father-in-law.

Masud Pathik. Translated from the Bengali.