Mohammad Ashek Shaahid

Sorrows are the salts of life,
If you know how to taste.
Memories are gift of time,
If you can treasure it best.
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Let me break into thousand pieces
turn into the dust I was formed
mingle with rain and earth
and dissolve into nothingness.
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People say-life moves on so
look forward.
Never hold on to old grudges
forget the past.
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I craved to reach to her
She raised a wall
Of differences and inequalities
By far.
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She, a princess, dreams a prince;
And awaits his arrival who
rides on winds.
A prince whose father is Sun
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I have only one friend in life-death,
He lies beside me in my bed.
Faithful till the end,
Till the day of judgement.
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I would rather forgive everything
That people have done to me.
Forgiveness makes a mind tranquil
And brings serenity.
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God tests those
Whom He loves most
Fills their buckets
With sorrows
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আমি নদীর এক ভাসমান কচুরিপানা
সারাজীবন ভেসেই চলেছি, কখনো
যন্ত্রমানবের আঘাতে ক্ষতবিক্ষত হয়েছি
তবু কোত্থাও আমার ঠাঁই মিললো না৷
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I have Seas in my Eyes
Dark deep and mysterious
Salty and sulphurous
When it waves and flows
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I shall, one day, stand before you
And show you my love.
When the Winter comes to an end,
When the Sun burns lucent,
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Your life a candlestick
Set alight the moment
You were born.
Let's measure and see
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Wake her not
She sleeps in her dreams
She lives in her sleep.
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আমায় তোমরা বলো, 'ভাবনা কিসের এতো?
হাসো, খেলো ইচ্ছে যতো
জীবনটা যে বকুল ফুলের মতো!
শিশির মেখে পড়বে ঝরে
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O you! the peace lovers
Don't bother
Counting the number
For, the Palestinian mothers
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Too little and fragile in form
To stomach the bullets and bombs.
Too young to fathom
Born to a Palestinian womb
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