More Fool You

You put your eggs in one basket

Now sit and rue

More fool you.

Winds blew, basket rocked

Now there’s egg on you

More fool you.

Investment’s good but discretion use

Choppy markets eat pursue

Lesson for you.

None to pick up pieces

What e'er you do

Lesson for you.

Realign scattered forces

You've days to live through

That's what you can do.

Give it another shot

You might breath anew

That's what you can do.

রোজনামচা

রোজ আমি নাতুন করে লিখি
তুমি আমির হারান গল্প গাথা
চলতে চলতে হোঁচট খেয়ে থামা
ভরে ফেলি পাতার পরে পাতা

রোজ আমি নাতুন করে বুঝি
তুমি আমি বলছি দুই কাথা
ফনে ফমে যত আলাপচারি
তোমার আমার ভিন্ন ভালোবাসা।

আর নই ক্ষুদিরাম

আর বার খাইয়ো না

এবার বাপু থাম

আমার গলায় ফাঁশির দড়ি

তোমরা নাচে নামো।

বুড়বক বানিয়েছ

অনেক এমন করে

লম্ফ ঝম্প করে মরি

তোমরা থাক দূরে।

মোদ্দা কোথা বলছি শোন

নিচ্ছি এবার বিদেয়

নিজের লড়াই নিজে লড়

মরছি আমি খিদেয়ে।

No will to fly

Stranded
on lonely beach
solitary soul
tortured to death

Lights come on
new dawn's born
abandoned one
never reborn

Breezes blow
drums beat slow
soul once dead
fails to glow

Life's passing by
left with sighs
flogged soul
no will to fly.

The Battle

Struggling

To stay silent
To keep distance
to act sane
To laugh again

To be myself
To play your game
To stand firm
To betray my name

To love half life
To live in death
To eraze betrayal
To hemlock inhale.

Delusion

I thought I'm strong   I could break free
I know I'm wrong     it cannot be
I've ridden waves     I've climbed hills
They give strength    yet they're drills
My root is with you  your hand held
More I am caught    the more I rebel
To teach this truth    did you stay away?
My world crashing   price I've paid
You'll come back    to find broken me
Awaiting your arms  close to sea
My days are dead    my nights are graves
Delusion I've lived   a life unsafe.

Journeying back

We've come a long way, holding hands
touching, kissing. loving
hording our hurts in hearts
concealing pains, behind smiles
our white washed show no cracks
it's time for a turn around
to make river flow backwards
struggling to revert to source
e'en as Nature pulls forward.
Unequal that fight
one blindsided, fighting alone
power, resource accumulate
in other to tilt balance;
for one failure brings death
for other dishonour
heart fighting mind.

Why did you leave me?

You filled my days with words

You built my nights with dreams

Your comings used to be my life

Your presence used to be my strength

O why did you leave me?

We were meant to be

Together, you said,

Where’s that promise fled?

Did you turn me away for gain?

Did you not feel that pain?

Time came to stand between

What does your silence mean?

O why did you leave me?

We were meant to be

Together, you said

Where’s that promise fled?

Now I love but I live no more

For you have closed those doors

In heart incessant fires burn

Graves open whichever way I turn

O why did you leave me?

Could you not brief me?

We were meant to be

Together, so why did you flee?

Some of the days pass in hope
On others I look for the rope
By and by this time will pass
Will I find my field of green grass?

O why did you leave me?
Why did you make me see
Days of distress, why cause stress?
We're meant to be together, you said.

On Women's Day

Peaks and troughs
climbing up
sliding down
waves of life.

Each mass
as human pass
flesh and blood
sinews tight.

There's heart
another part
yearn and dream
out of sight.

Aches and pains
know no gains
wondering soul
a woman's might.

Seen as none
comes undone
hold that smile
forever bright.

Do I have permission?

Do I have permission to die, Sir?
For want of better things to do
Lay my head on the hard ground
For Yama to woo?

Do I have permission to live, Sir
In words and thoughts following you
Jump up and down as you bid
And rest in your zoo?

Do I have permission to speak my tongue?
Oh, that might offend you
My head will be on the block
Awaiting axes in a queue.

Do I have permission to vomit, Sir?
The words taught by you
No clutter, no taxing of my brain
That's a good thing to do.

My mind I gift to you, Sir
My heart I have skewered too
Now the world's a great place
It holds you, and only you.

My Paradise

My paradise is blue
extended, unending
an ocean serene, unruffled
a cloudless sky
where day meets night
lovingly.
Seeking this paradise
I have walked miles
Torn feet, bleeding heart
stop not that quest
screeching owls
howling winds
rip and batter
rains slush away path
wading through deluge
I walk.
Paradise lives
in heart and mind
an eternal call
wooing endurance
End's not in sight
through murk
I dare
holding promised land
cupped in palms
eyes'll dim
breath run out
I'll walk on
to me paradise.

খেলায় খেলায়

মনে হয় ছুটে যাই
     ছুঁয়ে আসি একবার
চাঁদ মামা আড়ালে
    অধরাই প্রতিবার।

মনে হয় দুটি হাতে
    বুকে ধরি জড়িয়ে
তবু ছাই মুক্তোটা
    ফেলে সবে ছড়িয়ে।

দুরু দুরু মন করে
    চোখে শুধু আসে জল
হাসি, কথা, কলরব
     বহে চলে অবিরল।

সামনের রাস্তা টা
    কত খানি বেঁকেছে
অদেখা রসিক জন
     কি যে ছবি এঁকেছে।

বাঘা বাঘা বাধাগুল
   মাথা তুলে দাঁড়িয়ে
আড়াল করেছে আলো
    তারা গেছে হারিয়ে।

ওই মনে আছে কিনা
   অতিতের ছবি খানি
ভেবে ভেবে কাটে দিন
    মন বলে- কি জানি।

বলেছিল- চলে জাও
    এত বাড় বেড় না
তখনি তো জেনে গেছ
    হয়েছ যে ফেলনা।

সুখ যদি এতে পাবে
   কেন হাত বাড়ালে
গাছে তুলে দিয়ে বেশ
   মই খানি সরালে।

আহামরি কি খেলা
   মেতেছিল দুজনে
সাধু সাধু উঠে রব
    তালি দেয় সুজনে।।

Unrest

Sallowness
Emptiness
Direction lost

Breathlessness
Uneasiness
Redundant cost

Stretched out time
Hidden blight
Covers frost

Not in line
Realign
Old world's dust

On the way
More to say
No dawn, no dusk

Stand alone
Props gone
Rip off mask.