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Crossfire and the death of poetry

 


By Aranna Hasan Delwar


The crossfire of my words

The light of dawn at the last moment of the night

Just before the footbar-

When the muezzin's sweet voice

Touching the surrounding air

My ears touched my heart;

My poetry is tied

Scotch tape on the face

Black cloth on the eyes.

Through the sweetness of the call to prayer

Loudly

Bullets pierced my words.


And blood soaked the slippery road like rain water,

Poetry was still alive

He understood by hearing the sound of boots

They're leaving-

The call to prayer is no longer heard.

Quiet all around;

      

Rape is from the depths of the woman's heart

Pick up the word, or

of a missing person

Tears of beloved wife, son, daughter

Drops of words that fall!

Crushed by reckless driver's car

In the silence of the child's parents

A sound that vanishes into thin air

I caught him

Then the crying ground of words

Soaked in the water of sighs

A poem.


When the state has the rights of its citizens,

Fails to ensure security

Then the poems came down to the streets

The city vibrates with slogans;

Surely that is not treason?


My innocent poetry was captured

Four-wall solid steel

Torture in a closed room.

Even then, when my poetry rises

Trying to protest

As a fugitive terrorist

He was taken to Maidan in crossfire

From his body in the darkness of night

The words are taken out one by one.


See my words fall

See my child is like a poem

tragic death


I kissed my lover's soft lips

can't write poetry

A lover's body cannot give me words;

I can't weave in the words of love

No architectural features.

Standing in front of the Taj Mahal inside me

A line of poetry is not made.


The woman who lives with burning wounds

Whose house is filled with the pain of losing dignity;

From the brink of death…

  He did not come back alive

normal life-

I saw anger in his eyes

Furnace burning deep in the heart

He gives me words to create poetry.


I want the release of my poetry

Inhuman killing of innocent words

I have come to ask for humane justice.

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