O My Blatant Heart! Poem by Rafiqul Anowar

O my blatant heart!
What is your quest, what is the demand?
Here I am starving in the desert - Sahara,
Don’t know why?
As if I am born thirsty in my own river.
Light, there are glows all the places, why?
There is a shadow, also a mystery though.
What is the destiny, what the danger –
Have no idea.
Even don’t know why is this waiting or for whom?
The life seems careless and maddening.
The sky remains silent, and earth has no sound.
Only the heartbeat sounds alone,
Why in this space?
Tell my barefaced heart!
What is your quest, what is the demand?