Shattered Glass
Our loves are like shattered glass,
And day by day,
The clarity fades from our sorrow-stricken lives.
How rare it has become to find the traces of humanity in human hearts!
Our fragile hearts tremble,
Shatter like glass into countless shards.
Life has become
A blurred afternoon, veiled in mist.
Or like a restless wanderer,
Unsettled by the tok-tok, tok-tok of a woodpecker
Beneath the scorching, crackling sun,
Melancholy deepens,
And darkness veils the world around us.
Severed limbs,
A broken mind,
Blind eyes.
How far can we journey on
When every step is steeped in pain?
Yet life leaves us no choice.
We keep moving forward.
How much farther must we travel?
How much more blood must we shed?
When will the destination of our long journey finally emerge from the haze?
Will the earth awaken to joy beneath the gentle sunlight?
Of a bright, pure morning?
Or has even that hope
Dissolved into the mist?
Who knows?
Love lies shattered like broken glass,
Scattered across roads and fields,
Strewn everywhere,
Day and night—
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
21 September, 2026
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.