
Our sons die,
in the streets that never sleep…
On the suicide boulevards in Queens NYC,
where the working drones retreat—
speeding in their mechanic cocoons.
But the force of a truck
took the life of a wizard…
My tears erupt like blizzards,
Although the snow is microscopic
made invisible to my optics
by the coldness of my heart.
(Solidified in apathy against the Galaxy.)
The universe accursed with Entropy:
so randomly life is taken,
so unaware of how one is forsaken;
to the inevitable.
Misshapen our dreams
that expect the sun to set and rise…
How vain our schemes
to even expect to become wise.
(Surreptitiously our demise
Smiles as it lurks like Tetchier…)
What seems like invincibility at youth,
is insensibility.
An obtuse confusion;
its proof, lies under cement tablets:
the final resting place for the buried young…
Our made up kingdoms crumble,
as we mumble obscenities
beneath our breath.
Consolidated with regrets.
We attempt to elaborate our percepts,
conglomerating our intellects
to find out its all nothing at all.
“Mankind” is forever bluffing,
while consoling, “Be careful to what you’re holding!”
(especially with those stigmata palms).
Writing psalms and others free-styling Quran’s
but to what melody, can we sing?
When the entropy of fate brings
that final curtain…
Thus, I Envy
the body of deceased wizards.
My Bengali brother:
You have seen the end first!
Before I. Certainly your metaphysics
will remain forever intrinsic
with my existence,
for I feel the persistence
of your presence
in the luminescence of every epiphany!
In between the space of every memory.
(I hypothesize: that it is that precisely
that is the transcendence of poetry…)
And I know, it was cold
in that body, frozen with rigor mortis,
but what was hot,
was how the clouds cleared
over your burial plot.
Like the eye of a storm
The cumulus revealing a stratosphere of bright blue—
perhaps your soul was swept
into the different gradations of the sky’s hue
by the great winds that gusted that day…
Or perhaps you finally sleep,
deep enough to rest in peace
R.I.P. Asif Rahman
May 3, 2008