Ok -- a Poem

Ok – a Poem

By Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)

December 15, 2010

Ok, so one life to live, huh?

Walk on the moon?

Or swim near the Barrier Reef?

Nada

Ok, so haven’t been on the moon

Nor swooned under the sea

Snorkeling amid sharks

Impossible?

Blah! Blah! Blah!

Breathing the air

Deep and long

Swallowing water

Like pure mist

Seen the ocean’s heist of the sun

Setting like large blood droplet

While the new moon

Stuck on the sky

Like a curvy knife

That farmer thrashes life

Of Weeds and brambles with

But who says

This moment, this frenzy

Of pressurized heart, aching

Muscles and tattering bones

Even in screeching pain

Jumping off the calcified mirror

And saying hello in tingling tone

One life to live, huh?

Ha! Ha! Ha!

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