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Even by a Kiss

Eyebrows perpetually arched with curiosity,
Coupled with those haughty cheek bones

             Languid fingers, almost Jhelum-like, stroke
              Stray hairs swaying across moonlit face

My unstill heart, privy to your unknown secrets,
Yearns to be disappears into its soft crevices  

              I keep stealing moments from an unforgiving world,
              As Qasidas are braided into aayats in rosaries of longing

Promises of meeting after the end of time hang in air,
Even as my life is held in the palm of a pale hand

                Doomsday , is fraught with too many risks of eternity
                But some distances won’t be covered even by a Kiss      

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