Afternoon in the Palms

Roaming with you
I hold the afternoon
In my palms.

Keeping no account of time
I suspend it from the sky
And find the sun nearer.

Myriads of hours after
In the periphery of mind
In a thawing pond.

Pathos of a Shalik
Has nested into my heart
Stepping away far, very faraway.

Translated by Siddique Mahmudur Rahman

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