I Have Built Home In The Air

Translated from the Bengali by Saidur Rahman
M
Muzibul Haque Kabir

I have built home in the air
sheer activities, commotion 
dominate all around, 
agitation, so many arrangements 
are confined to new page---
I have no respite though I need it, 
sunshine reigns supreme 
even under long shadows,
there is no peace anywhere.

I have built home in the air
new beckoning comes through breeze
I hear only the voice of poetry---
I need undivided leisure.
Intoxicating fragrance of Kodom flowers 
comes through the wings of rain----
sense-organ responds, 
wherever I go or don't go 
I feel a queer hurriedness within me. 
Seeds of sound fly in the air, 
I decorate the unknown distant wide sky 
with the rainbow of thoughts, 
my respirations get mixed 
with words and sound.