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Every human quietly shelters within themselves

an ‘ideological apparatus’ of their own making—

Bound inside the very ideology they construct,

They remain confined—

and, in turn, attempt to confine others within it too.

Indeed, a bewildering apparatus!

©® Farheen Akter Bhuian Nancy 

Timestamp: Probably, 2022, Social Sciences Faculty, DU

Adapted from my Bengali Poem.

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?!