I remember your soul

(Source: Who, despite knowing me helpless, still has courage and hope
Donate and move forward, behind the wall.
It stands as is.
Ms. Afrin Akhter (Dhaka Bar)
Dedicated to the tender heart of that kind-hearted woman)

I miss you so much, whether at work or at rest.
I remember you very often, dear friend,
I work hard to win you, my brain is bleeding and sweating –
Maybe fate is testing them by keeping both of them away!
What can I say, what can I say? I think, I see everything in my anxious heart.
Maybe you’re suddenly looking back at me to see what I owe you.

I want to be human… for you! To have you-
I gaze at your image with bloodshot eyes, fixedly staring,
Maybe this vision cannot touch you in reality-
Yet I remain by your side, feeling your own consciousness!
I may not feel the least bit good about you-
Thinking about that, why shouldn’t I call you Alo out of love?

Maybe you don’t know this, you don’t understand this while reading this article-
How much is written about you in this poetic heart,
The look of love in your eyes makes me fall in love with you.
I burn silently, slowly igniting the fire within my heart!
Inside me, neither you nor I know it anymore…
I will make myself worthy of you and give you a gift…

Your absence makes me work harder.
I take each step, thinking of my feet as your longing,
I have to be the person that, at the cost of your confidence,
You are working hard day and night to fulfill your dreams!
I didn’t express that I miss you every moment of every day.
I am hiding away to build myself like you…..

SM Moniruzzaman Akash
Poet-columnist, lyricist-researcher,
Dhaka District Bar Association, Dhaka.