Love

Nuzhat Amin Mannan
Technically love
is the raw material,
not so much
the finished product.

It must be
only for
the theoretically-inclined
that love means
monopoly--
for everyone else
love is
free market.

And though
Traditionally love means
sharing--
in the real world, you see
love can only be a barter.

Nuzhat Amin Mannan teacher english at Dhaka University