When she leaves

Durga puja is one of the most important festivals among the bengalis. Ma Durga stays with us for 5 days. But on Dashami she leaves and the pain we feel is hard to describe.

She came, she stayed,
For five days

We played;

We danced and we sang

We stood dismayed

When she left.

What joy she brings
Felt

I had wings,

Of worries and sorrows

No, nobody thinks

And she left.

She'll come back again
Yet,

So much pain

She's gone, I come back

This dark shabby lane

Oh! she left.

I don't know what hymns to say
I don't know how to pray
With tears held back at the corner of my eye,
With a heart full of pain and a deep long sigh,
I bid you goodbye;
Even if its a dozen months or more,
I'll be waiting for sure.