In Memoriam
Some memories like unexploded grenades
Need to be carefully skirted
When negotiating the minefield of the mind
To avoid an explosion
Of crimson clusters of heart-breaking images
Too painful to behold
In the full bright light of day,
But others echo like musical streams
In meandering motion in the dappled sunlit
Corridors of the mind:
Careless conversations in communal halls
of learning,
Earnest efforts in endless exams,
Silent focus at lectures stretching
The boundaries of imagination;
The gradual germination of carefully planted seeds
Unfurling to reveal the bird flower self
Contemplating the silent mysteries of the eternal
In the mystic microcosmic
Chambers of the mind.
Batool Sarwar is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka. She is also an occasional contributor to the Star Literature Page.
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