Pinjara (a story of a caged bird)

“Lalit? What do you want to become in future?”, and a young determined twelve year lad by all his confidence without even a second thought responded to his class teacher, “SCIENTIST”.

Well, it took only few years for me to find myself sitting and snickering over that ludicrous and immature answer. And soon enough I happened to realize that there were continuously some boundaries and barriers to what one can accomplish in reality which eventually lead to a point where I felt like there were fences to even the smallest of my intention.

Life almost proceeded to such a point where I literally felt like an imprisoned bird with not even enough space to open my wings entirely yet I kept fantasizing of the bluest sky. But during the course of it I happen to realize something really simple which we often disregard in our life. In the process of finding means to live, we forget why we live for. Well it took me quite a time to understand that happiness is all I wanted in life and it didn’t require me to flap my wings all above the striking clouds and beautiful rainbows. The musk is within the musk deer yet in ignorance it searches the whole jungle for the fragrance originating from its own navel. So is the circumstance in most of our life.  We search outside for things that are inside. 

All I had to do was to close my eyes and weave the sky.  

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PINJARA

Pinjara ko chep bara panchi ley akash boon dai chaa

A bird is weaving the sky from the cracks of her cage

Ankha baanda gari, kalo kalo baadal haru mathi….. chalcha hawa sarara

I close my eyes and feel the breeze above the dark clouds

Rokney malai ko chara, samundar ko kinara ma

Nobody fencing my presence amid the lovely sky and ocean

Mo chu panchi ko sanga, akash rangilo ranga ….. chaleo hawa sarara

 I feel the breeze with the birds in the colorful sky

Siriri hawa chal dai cha, Yo panchi ko umanga bardai cha

There is a cold breeze rising the hope of the bird

Chiso chiso lagna thaleo chisonai batasa ma, eklai uuri ra chu yo nadeykhiney akasha ma

A chilling sensation rises and I dive through the invisible sky alone

chaleo hawa sarara

Rokney malai ko chara, samundar ko kinara ma

With nobody fencing my presence amid the lovely sky and ocean

Mo chu panchi ko sanga, akash rangilo ranga ….. chaleo hawa sarara

I feel the breeze with the birds in the colorful sky

Kalo pinjara sabai ko jevanama, pinjara lai tohri haas na sikhunaa

There is a dark cage in everyone’s life, and we gotta learn to break that

Jati thulo bhayay pani booro phakah ko kura suneyra hera,

And no matter how old we become we gotta listen to our elders

Jevaan andharo cha bhaney hujaalo akash boney ra hera

And if life gets gloomy with time, weave a beautiful sky inside

Chalcha hawa sarara

Pinjara ko chep bara panchi ley akash boon dai chaa

A bird is weaving the sky from the cracks of her cage

Ankha baanda gari, kalo kalo baadal haru mathi….. chalcha hawa sarara

I close my eyes and feel the breeze above the dark clouds

Rokney malai ko chara, samundar ko kinara ma

Nobody fencing my presence amid the lovely sky and ocean

Mo chu panchi ko sanga, akash rangilo ranga ….. chaleo hawa sarara

 I feel the breeze with the birds in the colorful sky