Shattered Mirror

By Tasneem Hossain

SHATTERED MIRROR 
                  
Shattered mirror on the ground sparkles sunlight.
Tears glisten bright.
 
People shudder and protect their feet,
Lest they cut and start to bleed;
Broken glass… thousands of pieces,
Prick and cut veins,
Bleed but no one sees the pain.
 
I smile every day, a perfect smile,
You say, ‘You are happy, you own a style.’
 
Have you seen the pain of my bleeding heart?
Smiling every day is a beautiful art.
 
This world is a stage.
Here in plots, we play our parts,
I do my best to smile and dance,
Perfect in my role, I am the star.
 
Shattered mirror of my heart,
No one sees how I bleed and play my part.

Tasneem Hossain, an author of four poetry books, is also an op-ed and fiction writer, translator, educator and trainer from Bangladesh. Her poems are published frequently in literary journals worldwide and have been translated in seven other languages.

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