Triggered by a scent,
A sepia tinted photograph
Lost amidst pages of a yellowed book-
Memories like a train of thoughts,
A subconscious stream of consciousness
Takes me to a moment long ago.
Deja Vu sets in through
Silent contemplation,
As nostalgia steals the present,
Longings corrupt the future.

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দাড়িয়ে নিজের মুখোমুখি।
পিছু ফেলে আসা অশেষ পথ
আজ শেষের মুখে।
আয়না বলে দাড়িয়ে পর
কিন্তু চলার অভ্যাসে,
যতই দিক হাতছানি
আরশি থেকে দেখি,
সব পিছিয়ে পড়তে থাকে।

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বাঁকে বাঁকে ঝিকিমিকি।
মাছরাঙা ও শঙ্খনীল,
আমবাগানের ঝিল।
টিপটিপ ছাদের ছন্দ
প্রথম বর্ষার আনন্দ।
স্তব্ধ চোখের জল
আবেগের দাবানল।
জল সবই জল,
নদী থেকে সাগর।
বয়ে যায়ে বাঁকে বাঁকে
মনের কথা হাকে।
আর বইছে সময়।
বুঝি ভোর হয় হয়।

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LET'S GRAB A CUPPA

The best medicine for a lost soul,
A cup brewed with the heart of gold.
Fragrant leaves plucked from distant hills,
And steaming water the vessel fills.
The heart fills with the tannins bitter,
Yet bitter thoughts find it hard to dither.
The liquid calms the turbulent mind,
As the bag of leaves is left behind.

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Making love is hard work.
It needs you to strip down
Illogical insecurities.
Every layer that you bare
Reveals more scars than
Pleasure points.
Each caress taunts to tickle,
To knock the air out of your lungs,
Till you risk stop breathing,
Gasping for something
More than oxygen.
The kisses are just a trap
To lure with poison painted on lips,
Crawling closer to a tongue,
Tempted to lick and swallow.
Make love to me under the moonlight
Because the sun burns too bright,
Like a never ending inferno,
Of lust, want and greed.

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It's like testing turbulent waters.
Sometimes they leave a taste of
Molten ice cream on a burning platter.
Still I dance gleefully,
Around the blossom of the unknown.
Acquaintance is made many a day,
The waltz continues into
Wee hours of the night.

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The vacuum inside me was
Never from your absence,
But rather from the reality
Of denying myself.— % &

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To be truly free you need to open your mind. Freedom exists in the power to rise above the present situation.

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Those who do not learn the value of today can never enjoy the assurance of tomorrow.

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Freedom is not determined by who sits in the Parliament. It is determined by whether men live in the fear of punishment or in the confidence of justice.

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