Porphyria

I touched heaven tonight,
the instant made eternity
for a while as life flew in my loins,
coursing in tingling waves,
unfurling the petals of the rubied heart
that had laid asleep like myth, buried in time.
I drifted in a dreamland still awake,
my eyes knew not what they sought,
the lips sang out a holy reverie,
as my soul drank in pious delight.

City Life

Like a mortal crying for love 

in a plague ridden city ,

listless am I.

Nonchalance as a wave of 

euthanasia courses through

my blood everyday.

Somehow I'm still breathing 

like earthworms oozing mud 

behave in their soft shells.

It is not a pleasure garden lord,

but a sad bickering of sirens

breaking through the dead of the night.

A Prayer

A single tear on your cheek

I could kiss while you speak,

your words mean more and more

than all your presents beside the door.

Don't cry my heart that I have given

you away to a perfect stranger,

what would it take for you to give her

one rounded day of love without fear?

Living again

I almost died and came back to life

declining sweet tempting death, 

dressed in heartbreak that ate 

me alive but I escaped its jaws.

Regret and penance killed me 

whole but I made it through

like a child's old rag doll,

Surfacing again after thrown away.

Killing me is a promethean task

the eagle can't best me 

I'll grow again and be free

of death's clutches like the breeze. 

প্রাপ্তি

হয়ত কোনো দিন পৌঁছে যাব তোমার কাছে

বৃষ্টি যেমন হঠাৎ নেমে আসে

সবুজ ঘাসের বুকে।

বাষ্প জমা চোখে দেখব

কেমন করে গলে হিমবাহ,

কথা ফুটবে না ঘুম ঘোরে-

অস্ফুটে স্বপ্ন চারণ

আলোর খোঁজে অভিসার

রাত্রির আবডালে ।

Forgiveness

Burying the past is never easy ,

the bridges almost never burn completely,

they haunt our memories and poison

our resolve to bone slowly.

Unless we forgive these demons,

they would hunt us down and devour us whole,

wielding the knife of time through our gut 

and spill them unceremoniously.

In one perfunctory motion we'd 

end up with the dead,

floating where the waves take us ,

bleached clean of our skin,

to where only truth remains.

Song for my love

I'm trying to get through,

I'm trying my very best,

If you knew what I've been through,

You'd be scared like I'm,

But baby I promised I'll be brave and true.

So I hold on against the wind,

It blows against me in all its might

Still I'm trying hard and fresh everyday,

I'm trying to get through to you.

রূপকথা

তোমার বুকে মা‌থা রাখি নিঃশব্দে 

রাত্রি গভীর হলে ছড়িয়ে দিই কেশজাল

তোমাকে বাঁধি নাগপাশে

ধীরে ধীরে স্বপ্নের আবেশ বুনি

এক আকাশ তারা মণ্ডল গেঁথে 

তুমি ঘুমাও নিবিড় শান্তি মনে নিয়ে। 

ঘুম নেই আমার চোখে কেবলই কান্না ভাসে

ঠোঁট ভিজে যায় মায়াবী রাতে

রূপকথার এই প্রেম নিয়ে রোজ বাঁচতে ।