This time I only cried
⁃ Faruque Sayed,Silkeborg,Denmark.
This time,
I did not go to the ocean.
I did not go to the water’s edge.
Yet inside my chest,
the clouds broke,
spilling it all as rain.
This time,
I did not go to the ocean.
I did not go to the pebble shore.
Yet upon the ledges of my eyes,
darkness gathered,
Like scattered stones,
rolling, grain by grain.
This time,
I did not go to the ocean.
I did not go to the castles of sand.
Yet the song of broken hearts
played sharply in my mind.
I heard the fierce wail
of a house of cards collapsing.
This time,
I did not go to the ocean.
And alas, all the salty water of the seas
refused to roll down my eyes
and condensed into my heart foreboding.
This time,
I did not go to the ocean.
This time, I only cried,
holding within me
thousand seas of grief
for you my motherland,
for you my Bangladesh!