Casteism



People ask, what is Lalon's caste?

Lalon says, my eyes fail to detect

The signs of caste. Don't you see that

Some wear garlands, some rosaries

Around the neck? But does it make any

Difference brother? O, tell me,

What mark does one carry when

One is born, or when one dies?

A muslim is marked by the sign

Of circumcision; but how should

You mark a woman? If a Brahmin male

Is known by the thread he wears,

How is a woman known? People of the world,

O brother, talk of marks and signs,

But Lalon says: I have only dissolved

The raft of signs, the marks of caste

In the deluge of the One!



Lalon

Translated by Azfar Hussain

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