IN MEMORIUM

IN MEMORIUM

Khaliqur Rahman

1959

I saw a young bud bloom

And fall to dust

And meet its doom.

It could not stand

Even to the breeze

That blew to caress!

The fellow buds

Redden in grief.

The flowers with dew-drops

Weep at the sudden death.

The drops fall

Over the fallen petals.

But the breeze soon soaks it.

Many a rose falls

And the Spring

With fresh flowers

Coaxes to forget

What is but past.

Still there remains

A feeling of

Old grief and past gloom.

The bloom has met its doom.

Swapan Kumar Sur , my classmate, first year college, 1959, died of Leukaemia.