Patli ret ka guzaara hai,
banaana hai faulaad.
Gehri khoon ka karz hai,
karma hai aazaad.
Lambi daud hai,
hai yeh koi race nahin.
Khel hai kucch karne ka,
khilaadi banke, khilona nahin.
Rakhni hai apni maryaada,
choonk na jaayein kahin.
Yeh aag ka dariya hai,
doobna to hai hi.
[Anonymous Bengali poet of the twenty-first century]