Sayeed Abubakar (21 September 1972 - / Jessore / Bangladesh)

As though someone has thrown away a dark net
and the town has become a trout in the net;
as though no morning has ever approached here,
the town has submerged in overflowing darkness.

The town is, as it were, the island of a fairy tale.
I wonder who are, like the giants, snatching away
the tip on the forehead of a teen girl,
then devour the bone-marrow in rapture.

I wonder who finally by tearing up the civilization
are eating up its bones and flesh.
Didn't ever a single pir* or saint come
in this darkness here?

If so, you, the poet, take up the charge
and play the guitar of light in the darkness.

* a Muslim religious leader