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If I could, I would


(For my Peer, For my Shahid)

If I could
I would hide
All your poems
From the world

If I could
I would memorize
Every word and
Then burn all your books

If I could
I would turn
Back time and visit
You every day till I died

If I could
I would translate
Your grief and pain
And make it all mine

If I could
I would hoard
Every verse, every ghazal
And read it alone

If I could
I would bring
You back from that land
Where you never wanted to go


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