I know darling
You will be surprised
to see me
My face is full of beard
My hairs are falling
I have not seen me in mirror
for many years
these beards are years
When I touch my face
I understand I am growing old.

I know my darling
You are angry with me
You must have thought me
a coward, a liar and an escapist
Yes, you are right
I have escaped from you
Because, I loved
another woman
a mother
My motherland.

I could not tell you
on that night
they have arrested me
blind folded
Since then I am in jail
Its now 20 years.

My sin is I loved my country
more than you
I know darling
You will never forgive me.

Ershad Mazumder

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-letter-to-my-darling/