A poem that does not start with I

Fariya Rahman

Not yet, 
so much of me is still unspoken, that 

it would take years and many sleepless nights, and days of camouflaging myself to the bed in white; innumerous trips to the grocers, and reading and smelling the pages of the books I saved for later; weekend trips to the park and meeting people with stories similar to mine, and watching waves crashing down to the shore, million barefoot steps into the nature, and then two tiny hands reaching for my face and bringing me to the present, to this moment 

before writing one that starts with
something else. 

Fariya Rahman in aspiring writer and a full time mother. She is currently exploring story-telling through poetry, art and short form of writing. She has written and illustrated a picture book for kids in her Native language Bangla, published in May 2024. Few of her poems have been published in The Daily Star Literature, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Four Feathers Press. Link to the book: https://www.rokomari.com/book/411789/nora-o-neel-macher-ekdin Instagram handle:http://fariya.learns.to.draw