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 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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