Happy Ministry

In the slanting columns
  of  the morning sun
     on September›s grass,
none came for me

   none
     except

a lemon-winged grasshopper
and a chilly-peppered one
a tiger-dotted one as well.

in the greenery,

ants too showed up
silent uncomplaining workers

if I were the prime minister,
I would make the lemon-winged my minister,
the chilly peppered one my deputy
the tiger-dotted one    my chief of staff
all the working ants     my advisors
By the time earth firms up
next spring
My happy ministry will surely lighten up
our part of the world. 

Yasif Ahmad Faysal teaches English at the University of Barishal.