Damazine – Two Poems – Nasima Selim (Aulic)

Two Poems
Nasima Selim (Aulic) – Bangladesh

1.
at seventeen
i was small, sad and blind

at twenty-nine
happiness had returned before it died

at half past twelve
the sun glares at these
lonesome eyes

at midnight
i am startled

the sky shall fall apart tonight.

2.
it's a long wait
for someone i could love

from one end to the other

someone coughs in the dark
i shiver in the alley
the wait happens
at a time

when routes were closed
it rained for days

and a piece of paper flew
from my uncertain hands

on it her name, age, and address...

Nasima Selim (Aulic) is a physician, writer, and poet. Currently she works as Lecturer at the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. She has a book of short stories in Bengali published by Pathak Shamabesh. She has written poems and short stories in English for local newspapers and magazines.