Remembering the cultural icon --- King of Pop Michael Jackson ...


Dear Jacko
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The earth got happier when you descended on it
Fifty years back.
People were happy hearing your jingling words, lightening
Speed- maneuvers on the stage
You rocked everyone from head to toe
Shook their nerves to the soothing state of mind and body
And the submerged souls in the thriller unleashed.

You wanted to heal the world
With the elixir of humane gestures and words
Of human milk you sang so gracefully
Of a universal love you thought and sang so imperiously
In all plain proposition of being the man in the mirror
You wanted us all to be the same.

Boys, girls and the green veterans
All turned to the green pull of your magic-speed
Blood roared, danced, sang and cried
Of the wisdom that you spread around in the human minds
Love overflowed.


You defied the limitations
You walked on the moon
Like a fairy child
You went skating on the thin air
You swam, swam and swam
And you didn’t leave us
Got back with a message fair
Love overflowed.

You must have seen how people screamed
And cried-- paid their love and respect to you
In a way they never dreamed of doing so.

Michael, you are with us in the same breath
You’ll remain the same evermore
Forever, forever and forever
In the same grace you’re endowed with

Adieu, dear King of Pop
We’ll never forget you
For you’re in our breath and vein wrapped.


And you please forgive us
If we happened to bother you
For we love you
Adieu …
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Rafiqul Islam Rime
Agrabad, Chittagong
July 20, 2009