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Manzar Hussain Akhtar: A Poem Between Desertion And Union

Illustration: Freepik


(I)



The appearance of rain in the supplication was of the same clouds

Which were evident in the gloomy eyes


From the last moment of the union

To the first moment of desertion

We see

Alive in letters

The hushed meanings

This alive water runs throughout the whole body

Bright on the plank in the assonance of eyes are tears or a sunshine

In the hour of this scintillation

Our visages appears and shines




(II)



Moment,

In whose scintillation

You have left

Your quiver, your footsteps

A Sense on whose fingertips

You forgot your earing


My friend ..

In the hands and feet of this beautiful hour

The rivers of feelings and love continue to flow!!


Walking towards a blind alley and then coming back

Or filling of the assonance of water in the yard of lines

Are the images of desertion and union



In the peak of our sounds

Step by Step walking of the lilith slowly in the fortune lines

We see

A river of meeting and separation that flows and glows


Listen

To the extent of vision

Behind the dunes of the moments

There is a wild desert of some dreams







(III)


This heart even

Listens to the footfall of the shadows

That at times rise in your dreamy eyes


A solitude Which had touched the shores of a deserted cold figure


A silence

That had established slyly even in an accent

Has now become the companion of the last gloom

Which is being dissolved in the vessels of our inner selves



And now

There are ornaments of some promises in the devoted ears

In the peaks of syllables

Hushed meanings,

Are desperately looking for their ways for expression



So let me inquire about the Lilith of nights

Who is dreamy and drowsy in the arms of this bond

At this very cold moment

At the boundary of promise

I want to hold your visage in my trembling hands

I want to put the flowing tears

Of my gain

Of my loss

At your palm

Where the rivers of fortunate lines flows and glows


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