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  • A group of fireflies

    A group of fireflies,
    With longing for life, very quiet
    Spread the light in the darkness of the bamboo garden and say,
    We wanted to enlighten the whole world like this-

    A group of fireflies,
    Illuminated,
    The house where the unlucky mother turned off the lamp, without any compensation
    Till the sky becomes rubicund, by the dawn-

    A group of fireflies,
    Forgetting arrogance, gathered under the bench of Dukhai's kitchen
    Gathered, and brightened with the light,
    Until the fire in the oven is re-ignited.

    A group of fireflies,
    When the gaps in the Mahogany tree vanishes, tell the full-grown moon to fall into the bushes of Phenymansa,
    Said, No problem, you get some rest,
    We are here to enlighten the earth.

    A group of fireflies,
    Woke up on the very first morning of the Ekushey,
    Shine by exposing the foot of the Martyr Monument,
    And they said, sleep in peace,
    We are your eternal guardians.

    A group of fireflies,
    Stay billions of light years away
    Accompanying the stars,
    Glow all night long
    And, became a witness of the eternity.


    (Dukhai is a name of an unknown peasant;
    Ekushey is the 21st February, it is the martyr’s day in Bangladesh
    and observed as the International Language Day;
    This poem is dedicated to those 3 millions martyrs during
    the independent war of the Bangladesh.)

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