Angular Mohabbat

This Angular Mohabbat

Fashioned out of old wives tales

Of failed romances, dead Mahiwals and broken hearts

A tapestry of faded old songs.

Their meaning now buried under the years

Shadowed by the daily routine, This Angular Mohabbat

So black and white like sacred pianos of Time

Voice garbled by the sadness of being alive,

An orchestra of Beatle look-alikes

Our madness now accentuated by the rising sun

All those people we talked to now dead

Poets that no longer kill, disappearing along their own trials

Crying out

Khatam-Shud, Khatam-Shud

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Some Other Time

We will be counting days again, till we say hello again— only for us to say goodbye again. We always knew we’d have to say our goodbyes one day. Then why does it hurt so? Even so, when we know it won’t be long before even goodbyes are a luxury. We cling to hopes— that this isn’t the only life we will live. That one day, we will meet again, in some other life, in some other time, where we won’t have to say G oodbye.

In Barely Discernible Darkness

I will trace the Jhelum Across Your back with my fingers In barely discernible darkness It will form a paisley Drawn from the memory of An imagined Kashmir No language spoken by Man or Gods shall be Uttered that night Words will be melded, Sentences molded to form A new language of love The ink, a fine powdered Amethyst, shall dry as We write its grammar The quill tips, fashioned From old bones, shall Burn in its blaze The room will be Full of scorch marks In barely discernible darkness -- Tz

Undelivered Package

There is an uprising coming it was supposed to be here yesterday but I suppose it is lost in the mail who do I write to the website had no address only a small warning goods once sold can not be returned maybe I should have known then not to trust Nigerian princes with unclaimed millions and fully functional revolutions leftover from the days of the next war Maybe it is stuck at customs maybe it would have been better to wait for my cousin to travel in, so he could sneak it in packed neatly between airport toblerone and contraband iphones

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