Aiman Abdullah's Poem

Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 1, Number 2. November 2018. ISSN: 2581-7094


I Remember

                                      ----- Aiman Abdullah

There was a mud squelch

Blushes of red, brown and soot.

But that was eons ago.

My neighbour says he has a crater

Deep and huge.

He was once lush.

Now the grass never grows

My neighbours beyond the wall says

Beneath it are bones.

And once there were chunks and putrid flesh

Now the few carpels and meta carpels surface.

Once came some officers

Asking which side.

I say ask me.

Both side fell like flies.

Swatted by guns and canons

Old and young both.

Once I was a lush expanse

But now no green grows

Water falls but does not seem

For the blood has run deep.

I was there.

I am there

I remember