Interrogatory Poem by MAHTAB BANGALEE

imagine the sun
without light and spreading ashes

imagine the moon
with the light of the fire
and escalating furnace warming

imagine the ocean
without water and shedding the snowflakes

imagine the world
without anything and anyone

imagine the sky
without color and showing rainbow

imagine the space
without emptiness

imagine the galaxy
without centripetal-gravitational power
or with the alien mightiest more than human

imagine the self
without any blood, flesh, intestine, entrails
as the mightiest unseen wind

imagine death as life
and life as death
or life and death are a dream of human thinking

imagine if ancient someone named
the fire as water,
the water as soil,
the soil as wind,
the wind as space
the space as time
the time as endless human thinking
what would be then

nothing, nothingness would be the result
but like present the volatility of mind would kill
the straight forward common sense

I cannot tell you to follow all blindly
but do not imagine all as the criterion of truth




05.03.2020 Chattogram