Mahboob Hossain Chintu (My Dear Friend) Poem by Prabir Gayen

Mahboob Hossain Chintu
(My Dear Friend)

Mahboob Hossain Chintu was once an innocent boy,
Innocent like a fresh flower,
A boy whom everyone loved.

Mahboob Hossain Chintu was once a bright student
and a sensitive friend,
A friend whom everyone cared,

Now time has changed,
Mahboob Hossain Chintu has become a mature man,
A critic and a politically
conscious citizen,
Mahboob Hossain Chintu was once an innocent boy,
a sweet friend and an unmindful scholar.

A poet is not political,
A poet is not critical,
The job of a poet is to respond,
Sensitivity and sincerity.
A talent must be appreciated
Whether it is ARNAB GOSWAMI or Mamata Banerjee,
It is Sonia Gandhi or Narendra Modi Ji.

Divinity loves diversity,
Not a single flower or a single vegetable
is enough to proclaim His infinite forms,
He is though formless exists in every form,
He is not in image but every image is for Him.

Take off the colour from Your eyes,
The colour of partial philosophy,
Be a simple human being and witness the world,
Be an innocent Human being not a scholar
with complex thinking.

Respect the talent and sincerity,
ARNAB GOSWAMI is not born everyday,
May be he is not fit in your head,
but look at your heart as a learning student,
Go beyond colour of caste, creed and communal ethos,
Think with heart and be spelled out,

Mahboob Hossain Chintu you are my dear friend and sweet One,
Even at this age of dying years
do I cherish our boyhood days months and years,
Our fondness for each other and our
beautiful days of friendship.

@prabir Gayen: 25/04/20: 5: 34 PM.