Perplexity Poem by Rahman Henry

I'm simply perplexed; why
You began to blow after a serpent?
Only to find out her breasts
You followed her alone
Such a long distance frequented with beasts!

May be, you don't know___
Serpents unfasten and hide their breasts
Near those curve-lines of a river
Where some cavities are sleeping silent.

O.K! What's then? Disclose the truth___
Did you see something? Colors of radiation,
As its a glittering Prism!
Returned back in fear?
Seeing that solidity of darkness
As if, it has shaped like a twin palm-fruit?

Were you alone? Or
It's that serpent who saw you off
All the way through that deep-dark forest?

And then
There spreading a down-pouring Heavenly light
from her breasts
Cutting all those condensed darkness
In a lonely Jungle;

Opening all the waves of the hints of a rope
Let's go once again to look up those bright breasts
Of the serpent,
Of the jungle;

Inside the virgin treasure of cavities
Lying and sleeping by the river banks...


(The Stream of Bleeding (2005), Balaka, Chittagong)