Sunday, September 15, 2024

পাপেট পুলিশ পুতুল


পুলিশ এখন পাপেট

হলো শাসকদেরই জোরে

প্রমাণ খোঁজার দাপটে 

যে প্রমাণ লোপাট করে।  


ধর্ষক শিকার করতে  

ফেলে ধর্ষিকাদের জ্বালে 

ছলে বলে কৌশলে

সে সত্য গোপন করে 

পরিবারকে লোভও দেখায় 

টাকাকড়ি দিয়ে। 


যাদের কাছে করবো নালিশ

তারাই মোদের মারে 

অবাক হয়ে আমরা দেখি 

পুতুল নাচে পুলিশ।  


বুকে অসীম আশা নিয়ে 

স্লোগান দিচ্ছি সাথে 

বিচার চাই বিচার পাবই 

সবাই দিনেরাতে 

হাতেহাত রেখে যে তাই 

হাঁটছি পায়ে পায়ে। 


মায়ের বোধন হবার আগেই 

বিচার পেতে চাই 

এবার পুজোয় নতুন আলোয় 

আমরা সাজতে চাই। 


পুলিশ যতই হোক না কেন 

পাপেট কিংবা পুতুল 

এবার পুজোয় ফুটুক নতুন 

কিশলয়ের ফুল।  

Friday, September 6, 2024

A tying thread

I’m on cloud nine.

So much in love
I could tie
an ocean with
a thin thread
and gift it to
the lifeless sky
despicable, dry.

I could pull out
a mountain like
a flower,
take out a flower
that rose from the
bombed earth,
shower them onto
the vast blank
the void witness
that since long drank
all the waters
from the rivers
turned them into
nothingness.

Love! Love! Love!
If you're looking for love
you cannot see
take it from me for free,

Where are you?
The truant child
gone into a hiding.
Come back you shy
infant, your smell
your smile, your
innocence disappeared
in the cloud of intelligence
here in the hearth
there’s only hearse
passing by
words, actions, a curse
on the childless earth.

While there are more men
learned men of letters,
way too well-read
there’s this occult night
dark, dreadfully red,
the seraphic cloud
adrift in the crowd,
the crying cradle jowls
in the mounds of dead
in search of a bonding
looking for a tying thread.

Beliefs

 

If you're in conflict
with anyone, or
with anything
you are following religion.

If you're not in conflict
with anyone, or
with anything
you are following
spirituality.

Both are beliefs.

When you are dealing
with minds
you drown in conflicts.

When you cling on to
consciousness
conflicts cease to exist.

Both are beliefs.

Monday, September 2, 2024

Abhaya, the modern Joan of Arc












The foreword


Abhaya! The modern Joan of Arc
from the city of joy.
They murdered you, but you’re immortal despite their ploy.
A heart of a caregiver so honest and true
Before 2047, wish we could make your statue;
We will not let you die
You raised your voice against corruption,
against the goons, their lies
We will deafen them with our outcries.
Your innocence will be heard from afar
Your face will shine like the golden star
We’ll reveal their dirty, nasty, ghastly game
Not rest until they’re punished
Until they’re put to shame.

 

The body

Deprived and wronged doctors
Raise their voice against violation and murder

Merciless butchering of a doctor on duty, a mayhem
Out in the open now like the sky of autumn
Unopened box of unwritten robbery, chicanery revealed
Medical practitioners marched and screeched
Indian men, women from all walks of life joined the protest
The slogan ‘we want justice’ echoed without rest.
Agonized parents, colleagues, lawyers, players out on the streets.

Determined, demanded justice from the leaders, from the police.
Eager to know the reason behind the slaughter, indoctrination, depredation
Bemoaned kerfuffle clamored the lackadaisical police chief's resignation.
Nocturnal fears conquered, the women claimed the nights
Angered with the administration, their horrendous plights.
Truth will come out, it cannot remain in the dark,
Herculean task before us is to expose the misdemeanors’ mask.

The epilogue

History has witnessed a deadly act that shouldn’t ever repeat
Not helpless, the Doctors stand hand in hand, they'll not accept defeat. 

Faith

Faith is a qualification.
Not everybody has it.

It gives you a passport
to the real world.

Once achieved,
it never expires, dies.

The fake world
you learn is a pack
of lies.