
The Silence of Multiplicity
Mesfakus Salahin, Bangladesh
I stay up all night
I tie my mind’s horse
In an invisible thread
The horse flies away into solitude
The thread is weak
The earthly mind
Floating in the mysterious water
The self is always deceived
in the midst of the trance
The new-fashioned arrogance plays
Written in the dew of a leaf of grass
Returning again and again
The horse blows away the dust
Leaving everything behind, its own circle
In the circle of greed, in the crowd;
In the story of life, in the prose of wealth;
Only searching for oneself in the depths
In the deluge that pierces the veil of night
The intention of touching a straight line
Wakes up in the estuary
I cut the blood line
I cut the dark mountain and catch the guest
The sky descends with the color of the sky
The guest is lost in the unknown
All darkness becomes light through discussion
The soul enters the grave of the night and moves
The night does not remain in the grave
The greedy hand does not remain
Day does not remain
Whatever is colorful becomes bare
There remain deeds and lamentations
The dead river of boundless time have crossed
In the living grave, night remains, the illusion of night;
The shadow of day on the back of day
The multiplicity of self
The silence of multiplicity