Gift

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

Once you’d brought me a box of sky
along with a cup of silence.
I wondered you prompted me to write a poem.
I wrote one on sky and silence.
A few days later you brought a cup of sky
along with a box of silence.
I wondered you liked the poem
and wanted me to write another.
I wrote one more on silence and sky.
You kept quiet until the last sound of silence.
It took me years to understand—
sky and silence and silence and sky
were also a gift worth weight of a heart.