Insignificant Human Beings

I don’t love or cherish or adore any humans anymore,

Though, I try my level best to understand them.

Sign of extreme misanthropy? nihilism? or, narcissim?!

Maybe or maybe not!

Actually, I don’t love anymore the ‘Men’ who think themselves as ‘God’,

Who thinks they own you,

And, label you as their properly adorned property, As if you are

a decorum to them,

A decorated well furnished home ready to showcase,

The concept of home is beautiful until I have to pay the rent for living in it,

The concept of paying rent is also tolerable if only I belonged in it.

I defy such meaningless role that make me feel any ‘less’,

I defy such character that tries to put chain on me

when I am only a walker of straight path

not the passenger of cross roads on the board,

When I know my own limist who are you to limit me?!

When I acknowledge the liminality of being human,

Who are you -the other insignificant liminal human to order rules over me?!

I defy such roles with pride.

Those who can’t embody god behaving ‘god-like’,

First, be a human – the liminal human who knows their bounds,

Then come to dictate,

Overcome your limitations before acclaiming yourself a ‘Roman God’,

You are nothing but a pawn in the chess board of ‘God’ anyways.

You are playing the role predesigned and predetermined,

Misanthrope or an empath,

Clearly I despise such despicable creatures!

Good for nothing but full of pride,

I hate their becoming of ‘God-like’ and acting like one.

Time Frame: 5 am, 9 August , Mirpur Cantonment.

Incapable

Now you know, The permanent damage that you’ve done. They call it survival, But, I named it silence. A disease

Numbness Towards The Collective

The sadness in my eyes has numbed the empathy towards the pain of the collective. I no longer read the

Contempt for the Culture that Shaped You

In knowing you, little by little, I cannot deny, That the flaw was not in your nature but in the

Asymmetrical relationship with the cockroach

The cockroach did not know that evolution never taught humans to befriend it, And, It didn’t learn to hide. It

Blue Whale

There was an ocean within me once, It was deep,blue,wide. In that deep blue ocean- Tides shone so bright, Faith

No bond lasts long

Why don’t you believe in people anymore?! – Cause, I don’t want anyone to exploit my reason. How’s that like?!

Farheen Akter Bhuian