– Zakir Abu Zafar
Like the sky azure eyes spring about shivering
as if the air of the world of eyes!
I look out for your eyes that remain open and awaking!
What a pleasure I think of you!
That’s the night of Chatim – smell
that’s smelt at night!
You might think also of the nameless moon-lit night
abreast your darkness.
Do you go also to your sleepy night of the world
where sleeping hands overwhelm you with spring air
as if heart hides abreast the depth of the dark.
Yet man has nothing to hide before
the wonder light of the eyes.
Is that the reason where human heart
appears lighted over his face?
Is that the reason where all secrecy of mankind
reflect over his/her eyes?
You look at your eyes before the mirror
and find there stands the endless sky alone
along with its wide cold shadow!
Does anything comes before your mind
at any moment surprisingly?
Have you become unknown yourself and again and again
you look at yourself shivering-
these are your lips and the same features of your face!
This is all of yourself though you become sometimes
an unknown isle
where the bird of you does not stay in the cage!
-Translated by M.Mizanur Rahman
Like the sky azure eyes spring about shivering
as if the air of the world of eyes!
I look out for your eyes that remain open and awaking!
What a pleasure I think of you!
That’s the night of Chatim – smell
that’s smelt at night!
You might think also of the nameless moon-lit night
abreast your darkness.
Do you go also to your sleepy night of the world
where sleeping hands overwhelm you with spring air
as if heart hides abreast the depth of the dark.
Yet man has nothing to hide before
the wonder light of the eyes.
Is that the reason where human heart
appears lighted over his face?
Is that the reason where all secrecy of mankind
reflect over his/her eyes?
You look at your eyes before the mirror
and find there stands the endless sky alone
along with its wide cold shadow!
Does anything comes before your mind
at any moment surprisingly?
Have you become unknown yourself and again and again
you look at yourself shivering-
these are your lips and the same features of your face!
This is all of yourself though you become sometimes
an unknown isle
where the bird of you does not stay in the cage!
-Translated by M.Mizanur Rahman
