Relative Deprivations

I am unhappy because I’ve compared myself with a happier person than me today.

I will be happy tomorrow if I compare myself with less fortunate people,

Measuring my rate of success in parallel with their progress and gains.

Relativity in all forms causes agony today or later.

Instead, I should compare my state with my very own essence—what I shall be and what I ought to become!

But what if my potential was never meant to reach the destination?

What if the situation and context never changed?

I am the same from where I began?!

I understand now that we fight relatively now and then,

Only to change the circumstances that circumscribe our enormous dreams and potential.

Inner calling—whatever we call it,

We love what fulfills our desires.

Desires shape our actions, and so does the future!

People vary only in terms of desires to desire.

©® Farheen Akter Bhuian Nancy

July, 2023, Chittagong

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