I fly in the vast blue sky,
flying around seven continents and seven seas;
staying awake when the world sleeps.
There is hunger, there is greed;
Corruption and disease;
Grieving animals and humans are in need,
Inside their hearts they all bleed;
Animal and humans suffer in pain
from changing conditions,
that happen for selfish reasons to gain.
Corruption and destruction of nature
melts glaciers;
Temperatures rise,
Leading to world’s decline;
I sit on the trees in the middle of the nights,
Looking at the stars and northern lights.
I see in the dark, the reality of life;
The more I see, the less I talk.
The less I talk, the more I hear;
Now that I know the hunger and pain;
Disease and corruption of corrupted minds
It makes me wonder and think.
Was it better if I didn’t see?
I would have been content in my own company.
I wonder when all this will cease.
Till that day, I cannot rest in peace.
Tasneem Hossain is a multi-lingual poet from Bangladesh. She is also a fiction and op-ed writer, translator and trainer. Her writings regularly appear in magazines and dailies in the USA, Canada, UK, Greece, Singapore, Indonesia, China and Bangladesh.