Paint me my love with colorless paints shower me my love with anosmic scents touch me my love with invisible fingers sing to me my love in silent whispers love me my darling like I love you reach me …
920,000 kilometers
I shimmered, I glimmered like million blinking fairy lights Across 920,000 kilometers* of axons, neurons and dendrites. All the way to the moon and back Giddy in love, yet strangely aware catching stars spinning out of nowhere pilgrimage in …
Essence of Soul
The essence that stays behind unravels a person’s true design. I blur you with my projections absence clears my perceptions. I sniff the first space and find Ocean waves flood my mind. I sniff the second one …
Mirror
I don’t miss you, I just miss me I’m not looking for you, I’m just looking for me For how can I miss …
Repression
Blow like creepy howling winds Flow like torrential pouring rains Freeze as a thunderstruck disaster Shake in cynical mirthless laughter. Whatever it takes to acknowledge pain fully Like a course of isoniazid to kill sly ol’ LTBE For Repressed …
Understanding Guilt
Behind friendly cordial camaraderies Behind polite respectful acceptances Behind healthy balanced compromises Behind composed sensible appearances I sensed some rigid doctrinaire ideals I sensed some judgmental boundaries I sensed some empty embellishments I sensed some prejudiced tyrannies But …
Aha
I asked is God within or God without Universe whispered God is throughout I asked should I be selfish or selfless self is but an illusion nothing else I asked should I follow east or west Mirror reflected be your …
First love
Long time ago, in an impressionable age A baby imprinted me with her sweet face Our first love bridged the gap of ten years holding hands amidst laughter and tears. We grew, we grew and we grew Till Banka …
Kenosis
I thought life shuttled between pain and pleasure I thought my choices were between gratitude or Sabr* I thought I needed to either laugh high or cry low I thought I could only crave love or desire my lover watching …
Art of Nothingness
Art of nothingness Alara Azad January 23, 2018 If less is more,then nothing is infinite, If relativity holds true, zero is pure might, This state of nothingness, perfected to an art, By Jalil-ul- Muzzafar, eternal in my heart, I weigh …