February 7, 2015

Patronym

Patronym is the name typically derived from father or ancestor.

Powell (ap Hywel)
Carlsson
Stefanovic
Macdonald

O'Connor (grandson of Connor)
de Costa
Dupree
Von Duhlen
Van Basten
Da Cunha
Bin Laden

Sandbed of Pain

With what hope
Do I create my playhouse
On a sandbed of pain?

Destiny with my luck toys
Night and day
On a sandbed of pain.

Alack this heart! 
Why doesn't it lose hope?
Whatever little it wants
It gets none, whatsoever none!

Who knows why 
Clouds only fill up my sky!
Destiny with my luck toys
Night and day
On a sandbed of pain.

Each day rises a new sun, 
Each day brings a new dawn -
But in my life's gloom
Neither rises the sun
Nor comes the dawn.

The world bade me bye -
as if it called and said,
"there's no place here,
you are a nobody."

My tired soles give up
In the distressed gloom
Seeking a path
On a sandbed of pain.

With what hope
Do I create my playhouse
On a sandbed of pain?

This is a translation of Bengali song