BETTER TO KEEP AWAKE
ON such sultry days as these
it is better to keep awake
taking a respite posture
from day to day
If I woo sleep
weariness grows apace -and
I dream dreams fatiguing !
What foul weather waylays me
and behind the screen of dreams
I retreat; all over smeared with blood
ruthlessly smitten by nightmares !

It's better far to sit up and recline
and put on semlence of being alive 1
(translated from bengali poem of phani Basu,- by Umanath Bhattacharya)