Love that's more than a ValentinePoetrySpecial Features

Love is everywhere

Love is the most common thing

Right next to seasonal flu

Allergy and worn out shoes, loud horns and rusted screws

It’s everywhere- would I say a pandemic? No an endemic to humanity

If I said this in front of you, you would’ve scrunched up your nose

Looked slightly above your glasses and said

There you go again-

Your cynicism and strange views

Hopeless ideas and tired blues

Love is not some common commodity 

Not just some ordinary feat

But we walk bout the corridors

Arguing on semantics and words

While love passes by, like spring breeze

The most common thing in the world

15 missed calls from my mother

From a faraway town by the sea

Always the same question, the same bother

: have you eaten today?

I console her 15 times 

And for the hundredth times

She sighs relief, 

With a few quips she feels

Cuts the call 

and sits to eat

The most common thing in the world

Every leaf of Neem falling by the road,

Carelessly, in abundance 

Is my fathers love,

Who digged out a neem sapling for me from a bush 

Because I cried that it would die 

My own love, 

My grandma who I promised at 9, id build a swing for her

If the neem tree survived

It didn’t, 

With age -neither did her memories 

But with each fallen leaves, ones I stash in my bags and my pockets 

Are mementos 

Of the most common thing, the most common truth

That he’d wait the line 

And know to put exactly two spoons of sugar 

In the cup for his friend with tired eyes

She writes “A” the same way

As her kindergarten teacher

Who knew her smile with tooth gaps 

And held her hand when she cried

Love is the most common confession

We tell without knowing

I wait by the prayer hall

You hear my favorite songs

The cat that always falls asleep right between your legs

The ring that’s rusted on my finger

From a cherished old friend

The most common sight

Our most honest truth

Love is everywhere we are

If you’d just remember where to look.

Kishoar Tahia Mazumder Aabha is a Bio student who is trying to find out if the old legend of fern spores being invisibility spells is true or not to avoid social interactions. She is a Freshman majoring in the Biotechnology program from the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brac University.

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