Dear Deaf Cockatoo

By Afrida Lubaba Khan

Dear Deaf Cockatoo,



I mostly stare at the empty ceiling;

watching the imaginary pink bees,

I sometimes try to match up with people, chaos in my wake, no one sees.

You will never know how your absence strikes my heart,

until you are in my place.

Every time I watch “The Notebook”,

I see your non-existing face in front of me --

Enjoying, laughing, seeing the miserable shredded parts of me.

My heart always ached to hear the echoes of your soul;

But you were never ready to hear.

Because you did not feel me as I felt our deja vu.

I screamed and screamed, loudly and madly just to be with you.

But you turned yourself off like a Deaf Cockatoo.

Afrida Lubaba Khan is an aspiring poet, writer, and translator from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is one of the Sub-Editors of ULAB-MUSE Magazine, and she is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in English Humanities at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.

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