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Addendum

By Md Mujib Ullah

addendum

if you look at my journey, from your point of view,
you will find, i have been grateful to people
who nurture me, encourage me, and criticise me to be better,
to make me a thoughtful and considerate human 
in times of crises, in the era of finance.
how can i forget those moments? 
i don’t ask you to be on my side
rather i want my own space, my territory.    
if you don’t know what’s happening inside and around the world,
how can you be updated? how can you be on par? 
you may not know what a bird thinks, and how a fish smiles in our region.
checking me is a violation, i am not a weapon of chess. 
and it matters when you don’t make any assumptions
about the issues. you are not heard of. do you know
what i am doing now apart from typing verses 
with my hands and looking at the device’s screen?
while you care about these, i am on top of the hour of hope.
i look outside my windows on a spring afternoon, 
to see how leaves fall from the trees, and to enjoy the breeze. 
pause. no endnote. no final full-stop. a continual task…

Md Mujib Ullah from Sandwip, Chittagong, Bangladesh, is a researcher, writer, and translator. His poems have appeared in Journal of Poetry TherapyTextAsiaticCapitalism Nature Socialism, and Postcolonial Text.  

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