21 February
We struggled for the Language
It was for Bangla
We achieved our right
Recognized today as
International Mother Language Day
21 February is a red letter day
For all of us in the world
Salam, Barkat, Rafique, Zabbar and so many
Laid down their lives
As we are in this earth
No one can take away our Mother Tongue
We are blessed with a language
Express our thoughts and ideas
Peace be upon them who sacrificed
The most valuable lives
To communicate with each other
By our own language
Different community, nation and groups
Remember the day
with great respect and honour.
Ours beauty of Nature
Tigers are grazing
Lions are roaring
Deer are looking straight to us
Birds are chirping
Peacocks dancing
Watching infatuated
The sun is rising
The sun is setting
The moon shining at night
We compose new songs
Make our love
Lost in passionate play
Flowers are blooming
Humming of bumble-bees
How exciting!
The oceans are rising
The rivers are flowing
Some are walking
Some are running
Some are sitting and
Lying on the shore
A blissful moment
Caught in the twinkling
Breaking the door of dwelling
Wow, mind blowing!
Deprived
When you perform a stage program
I enjoy the role of your performance
You sing, dance, recite and act in drama
So many audiences clap their hands or
Cry in sorrow, you are a successful performer
With your skilled charming voice and face
You captivate the minds of thousands and millions
I wanted to be a famous one like you, my friend
I am a wanderer now nothing to be done
I have no way to take a step for renewal
With a broken heart I play on my flute
In this dark world
Where everyone is my near but
I am not to everyone
What I think with one
The next day is turned over
Breaking the words every moment
What is deprived of?
Nothing to be answered
I play on my flute alone by bush
Or the river for ever
Every morning or evening
I establish my own performance.
The days gone by
The days gone by reflect in the eyes
The buildings so high, the cottages
The beautiful green trees and leaves
The flowing rivers, the fresh
Red, blue, magenta, green, rosy
Colored flowers welcomed me and
Various cactuses in my yard
The fragmented bricks by the way
The role of walking cows in the fields
The calling of sheep, the grazing of goats
And the cows coming back to home flying dust
At the evening in my village home
I can see vivid on my bed when I open my eyes
With my friends I went to the stalls and took snacks
Lost ourselves in talking, discussing on
Over the smoke of the tea cups
All are gone by
The attending of classes, the teachers’ faces
And some memorable speeches
Can’t but realize today once for all
From a child, a boy
From a boy, a man
From a man, an old and at last die
How speedy the days gone by!
Yet we struggle for reformation always.
Chandra-A Murderer
Chandra loved her husband too much
But her husband did not understand
He married once more
More than four or five times
But she agreed all of them
She wanted to be touching him
If not daily at least once a week
He never paid any heed to her
In this way eighteen years have passed
She has got four sons in her lap
Being liberal in heart she continued
Her life in this way taking much pain in heart
Her parents forced her to divorce him
She did not like to do that
They lived in the same locality
One day she heard that Her husband was alone in his house
His next wife has gone to her parents’ home
Cooking some delicious food for him
Chandra entered his husband’s room
Seeing her he became so furious
She tried to make him cool
But he suggested her to pass her time
With many others in the outer world
At this fire started to burn
In her head but suppressed
And spent the whole night awakening
It was early in the morning
When her husband was in deep sleep
She brought a piece of rock from the cooking room
That was used for grinding spices and
Struck on his head again and again till death
Confirming his death she cut his penis
And rushed to the police station
She proclaimed, ‘O police officer, I have murdered my husband and it is his penis,
Please hang me quickly; I would not like to live anymore.’
When asked why she cut the penis
She replied if he gets back life to save the virginity of any other girl.
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh 22/01/2017