" Will of God "
- Salim Mahmud

God is running the great show sitting on which great chair
God lives in my mind
All the time we are in arguments,I am here, God is over there or in my mind
If I ask, I get no answer straight
instead of answers I get barrage of questions
I am torn apart in hesitation
God lives in my mind.

From where these Gods come?
From one mind through another mind
or is it forever there, in my DNA.

God tries hard to stop me
I stopped, perhaps I could have stopped
But oh! A question made god confused
and put me again in argument.

God said to me, son
That endless azure and the roar of the sea
all these are my creations.
The corn-full field, micro organisms
You better know, all these are my creations
Mountains, river, flowers or insects
everywhere my rules stay unbroken
The space above the space
the galaxy, milky-way- all these
I created you fool!
Your prayers will go in vain, if you don’t understand me.

In an instant I asked God
Okay! Who made you then?

God is gobsmacked! And I’m in arguments,
It’s still on, can’t be stopped
God lives in my mind
It can’t be found elsewhere.

Md Salim Mahmud
Aziz Super Market, Dhaka
4:16pm
First March 2010