The Notice Of White Shroud
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A Notice Of White Shroud: By Aranyak Shams
Suddenly I woke up feeling like an old man in his eighties.
I see the sky above my head,
Like a colorless 'pale-gray-face' hanging in the air,
The sky seemed to be a
'white shroud' covering the corpse of the sky and remnants of the cloud,
The sun is shrinking like a 'white dwarf'.
The pillow is torn off but the head is hanging on an inch above the ground,
Not wanting to depart like a faithful shadow,
Even though the faithful cell phone is smashed,
It is still clinging to the body,
As if the ashes remains after the cremation,
As if everything is dead but wants to resurrect.
Suddenly, I saw a dog barking,
And got out of the dustbin next to the cemetery and started licking his own dirts,
Unexpectedly, he made the tail curled up,
And by encircling the whole faithfulness,
He embraced the death,
Faithfulness dies with dirth.
Looking to the right,
I see now a vulture peeking out of a hole of a burnt 'Jarul Tree'.
Mother is dead next to him.
As soon as I remembered my cell phone,
I picked it up.
I saw a 'Notice' blinking on the screen....
"Humankinds are being informed that you have destroyed the heavenly earth. Now the world is under re-construction.
It will take hundred years to reboot."
Awakening up from 'the tormented dream' ,
I found a 'dismantled myself, a dog and a bird, And I saw :
'Two are deceased,
One is at dead end,
And the stomach is rumbling'.
I have been engulfed with horrifying darkness,
Now, I have to go out to find food,
No time left ....
I must catch up ...
the 'West-bound-train'!
© Aranyak Shams
(February 09, 2021-Suburbs, Sylhet)
About this poem
This is surrealistic piece of poetry that reflects also contemporary issues around the world and how we are destroying our mother earth. It also focuses on the impact of what we do against the nature and what may happen in future as its consequences.
Written on February 09, 2021
Submitted by rtn_m on July 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,660 |
Words | 348 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 6, 6, 6, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 5, 1, 1 |
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