This Same Sky by Naomi Shihab Nye

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

UNDER THIS SKY

There’s an enormous comfort knowing

we all live under this same sky,

whether in New York or Dhaka,

we see the same sun and same moon.

When it is night in New York,

the sun shines in Dhaka,

but that doesn’t matter.

Flowers that blossom here in spring

are unknown in meadows of distant Bengal—

that too doesn’t matter.

There’s no rainy season here—

the peasant in Bengal welcomes the new crop

with homemade sweets

while here, winter brings mountains of snow.

No one here knows Grandmother’s hand-sewn quilt—

even that doesn’t matter.

There’s an enormous comfort knowing

we all live under this same sky.

The Hudson River freezes,

automobiles can’t move.

Slowly city workers will remove the snow.

The old lady next door won’t go to work—

it’s too cold.

Maybe my old mother far away

will also enter her kitchen late.

Naked trees in Central Park and Ramna Park

quiver with dreams of new life and love.

Fog hangs on the horizon—

suddenly New York, Broadway, and Times Square

look dimly like Dhaka, Buriganga, and Laxmi Bazaar.

Zia Hyder

Bangladesh

Translated by Bhabani Sengupta with Naomi Shihab Nye

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