Tu tum jaa rahee ho???

(To the deserting train … 1006-2k13)

My heart pulsates in my throat

untamed like dark voodoo drums

within the drums roll tears

fearing words that are yet to come

it’s been just a moment, just a trice

that I, hope filled, just found you

my searches in the raves

had given me an answer in you

Scarce had my eyes feasted

scant to my heart’s fill

if at all, a look in your doe eyes

hardly the expression of my sighs

a bit had I heard those chimes

not at all in them hid the signs

The shine off your rosy cheek

language that your eyes speak

The curls of your auburn hair

flick of them, sans a care

flutter of thy lashes and their storm

Supple the lure of full arms

the yearn in their heavenly charms

swaying slowly as you walk

a rage for the town to carry on talk

you speak not those words

twitter for my ears, of loving birds

I shudder in pain and consuming loss

woe begone, beset, I toss

loss of a lifetime,

in a frame reset

you say you are helpless, weak

whence shall I fetch for you

a winners streak.

O love! Walk up bold to the deserting train

in the deluge of love nothing is sane

walk and you shall not walk in vain

Blow away the haunting shadow of pain

or slowly step aside and let it chug off

to let them laugh who had their scoff

don’t throw away a beautiful life

and buy us both a lonely strife

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saadat tahir

12th Jun, 2k13

Islamabad.