A poignant, dark poem by Kamrun, wherein she enlists the demands after her death – exclusively for Different Truths.

After my death
All my demands
details:

The boat that will come to pick me up
It should be decorated with flowers
Must be the date will be a full-moon night
My world glitters in starlight
that will greet me as if I was a queen of times.

The mountains will bow down their heads
The sea will swell up
And will touch my coffin with love.

My demands are nothing …
Just every manifestation of nature
will keep me in their mind
Immortality in the journey of time
My name will remain like radiant shine.

Every time when I will come to this earth
I will touch myself in different effigies in various verses.

My demands for those deaths
which are forgotten…
They will become green grass 
and will get a new life soon.
They will become a flower 
and will erase the mistakes of o'clock 
But won't be a thorn anymore.
 
The rest of my demands
that I left…
From generation to generation
Whose streams will bring new revolution;
A milky way that surrounds the galaxy
that reminds me,
I was, I am, and I will be.

Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths

Kamrun Nahar

Kamrun Nahar writes poems, blogs, features and short stories. Her writings have been published in web pages, daily newspapers and magazines in Bangladesh and India. She also publishes in the pseudonym of "Sofed Bihongo" (সফেদবিহঙ্গ). Her Haiku and Haibun were published under UTB journal, Cold moon journal, Failed Haiku journal, Quills journal & FemkuMag. Her poems were published in international anthologies, ‘Pandemic Poetry 2020’ and ‘Paradise on Earth’.

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