Sunday, 27 October 2013

Under the Sky you Inherited

1.1        Under the Sky you Inherited


This sky I did not inherited
As you did
As your parents bequeathed to you,
As their parents did to them.
Through the clauses of laws, rules circulations
Over days, months, and times
That you think your world has eternalized and internalized
That your social fellows consider imperative;
For the antiquity and continuity of generations;
For you believe that generations and you are identical;
And I only feel the pain, and peeling strain at my abdomen
Pull for  the birth of your antiquity’s identity.

At your first cry, your world unfolded it over you
Stretched it on and on, until you become overwhelmed,
Tried to reach more.
Mine sky is tiny,
It’s created
On the austerity of expectations
At the mercy of rusty masculinity
That often boasts at brothels in darkness
That you sneeze as stigma; but sniff for enigma
In light whose existence you eclipse through gazette;

In the miserly over- time break
Through the crack of the dormitory ceiling
As it is designed by the charity of the civilization
Extension of the wellbeing projects  for M-ego
A dollop of euphemism- the tender verse of interdependency
For my existence and means are finally perceived to be
An important part; not for me for me’s sake,

            But for the sake of the superiority of thee.

A grain of Sand

1.1        A grain of Sand

                                                    2012
How often I desire to be a grain of sand
Unnoticed, unrecorded; but
Twisting and twirling in the sunny beech
Simmering like the nose stud of a newlywed virgin
Or be a pearl on the sun stroke gleeful seal
Sequinning the sandy beech, dripping emerald seawater.
Washed and dried up washed and drowned up
In round – the - clock sun.
 But go lazy on the folds of the skirt of a virgin girl
The folds that unfolds millions of blazing pearls
Laughters and cries and sighs.

            How often I aspire for a grain of sand
            When the giant waves washed away the sprawling beach
The colour of the horizon squirt on dark crimson
…………….

            Suddenly I somersaulted  under the metropolitan car
The city – going-  reconditioned wheels squeezed me
I discovered me in the construction mound’
In between the bricks or blocks
The cracks of hardened turban of the day labour
In the cornice of the toe nails of the sluts
Crusted and hardened forever for

An ever- aspiring city.

BUBBLES OF PHYCHE, 2005, APPL, Dhaka

TO MY CITY CROW
- BUBBLES OF PHYCHE, 2005, APPL, Dhaka

O sweet bird!
You are the Aurora of my city
You sing
I am blessed with another day

People crave for cuckoo
but I for you;
The least egotistic
Innocent of innocents.

You carry dark on back
White shines after you;
You smile
The city is again clean.

Poor tailor! Please shelter
Beneath my cracking cornice
If rain goes lazy
In this deadly deforested dry city.