Light Blooming in the Dark
That day there was no sun,
so I did not step outside.
The whole day slipped away
thinking of something I cannot name.
I kept looking at the sky,
waiting for rain supposed to fall.
The hours passed in expectation—
yet not a single drop descended.
In the hush between light and shadow
old leaves of spring kept falling,
quietly, over and over.
Green did not meet me today either.
There were words to be spoken—
I almost said them,
again and again—
yet they remained unsaid.
Perhaps your sky too
was heavy with clouds.
When all the lights of the world go still,
night arrives, darkness settles.
And in that darkness
I see a blooming light.
In that flood of radiance
I lose myself somewhere.
The rain does not fall,
the sun does not rise exactly—
yet in your light
I am illuminated again and again.
The darkness that surrounds me
is never greater
than the light
you unfold before me.
The rose-petals of dawn unfold in the gentle dance of a dove.
Md. Mahbubul Alam is from Bangladesh. His writer name is Mahbub John in Bangladesh. He is a Senior Teacher (English) of Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj is a district town of Bangladesh. He is an MA in English Literature from Rajshahi College under National University. He has published three books of poems in Bangla. He writes mainly poems but other branches of literature such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times the Best Teacher Certificate and Crest in National Education Week in the District Wise Competition in Chapainawabganj District. He has gained many literary awards from home and abroad. His English writings have been published in Synchronized Chaos for seven years.
Once when he was in grade ten in 1990, his Bangla letter was selected as the best one from Deutsche Welle, Germany Radio that broadcast Bangla news for the Banglalee people. And he was given 50 Dutch Mark as his award. They would ask letters from the listeners to the news in Bangla and select one letter for the best one in every month.
From 17 to 30 September, in 2018 he received a higher training in teaching English language in Kasetsart University of Thailand for secondary level students through a government order from education ministry.
On 06 November 2015 he achieved Amjad Ali Mondal Medal for his contribution in education field by a development organization in the conference and felicitation function for the honorable personalities at Rajshahi College Auditorium.
On 30 December 2017 from West Bengal in India he was declared a ‘Literary Charioteer’ in Bangobandhu Literary and World Bango Conference and they awarded him with a Gold Medal in their International Literary Conference and Prize Giving Ceremony.
In 2018, he achieved Prodipto Lirerary Award in Prodipto Literary Conference at Kesorhat, Rajshahi for poems in Bangla literature. He received honorary crest from the administration of Chapainawabganj District Literary Conference and Cultural Function in 2021 and 2022 consecutively.
His poems have been published in many international online magazines such as Juntos Por las L Raven Cage Zine, and Area Felix. His poems have been translated and published in Argentine and Serbian, and he participated in many international online cultural meetings.