Silent Screams

Silent Screams
By Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)
July 30, 2004



Like an experimental rodent
From here I could hear
The whispers
Silent and Potent
Ultrasonic
Beyond perceptual limitations
For us the two legged men and women
Theoretically bonded in breathy symmetry

Like a tethered animal to be slaughtered
From here I could see
The glare
Blinded and clobbered
Infrared
Beyond perceptual limitations
For us the oblivious munching animals
Rhetorically grounded in flaky poetry

Bobby Fischer
Is on the run
But hounded, deported
Into a closed circuit monitored room
His every move
Opening, middle and the end game
Groomed
But Shan’t be notarized and catheterized
It’s the justice served
So they said in ample flare

It’s the justice served
So they said in fumble grumble
Smothering justice
Dying children in bombarded jungle
In ripped apart towns
Under the desert sun
Or blackened moon
Forcibly humbled
for further decorum
to mellow, to swoon

We could mumble
The silent whispers
Silent screams