Md Mujib Ullah

Mirage Dream-Sunshine

On a morning dulled by old grief,
light folds along the mirage line,
bending quietly—
like a truth we half-remember.

A fractured symbol flickers,
rising faintly
in the mirror of a heart
that pretends nothing cracked.

Forgetfulness slips between silk sheets,
not as sleep, but as static—
a force reversed,
a law undone in dreams.

And above it all,
the dream-sun ignites—
not warmth,
but the illusion of warmth.

A ghost sky holds it aloft:
secret,
scalding,
and nearly beautiful.

Md Mujib Ullah is a writer, researcher, and translator. His English poems include Journal of Poetry Therapy, Text, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Asiatic, Postcolonial Text, The Goose, Borderless, Prachya Review, The Daily Star, and elsewhere.