Cease the Greedy Knives : Palash Mahmud

 Cease the Greedy Knives

by Palash Mahmud




When the sun has scratched a ring of fire up in the air

Down here the whistling woods are burning and blare.

The more the greener the grasses, the most the deepest

The sighs fusing with spouting smokes that are thickest.


 When the moon has dropped melting lights down the river

Up there the carnival of breath ends in death and dare.

The less the size the more the numbers, the less the cruel

The more the wounds making the landscapes a charcoal.


Yet not we compel the wind to pause the raging line

Not even we plead the water not to flush the bristlecone pine.

Alas! we are in competition to outnumber moneys than leaves

We fail to force the gods, the kings to cease the greedy knives.


 At last we have made our own hell sitting on a throne of spike

At least the woods, the roots know how the hell looks like.

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