will perhaps be the day I release
my anxieties from my body’s cage
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Now that life’s done us apart
Will death bring us together?
As one?
In one?
None.
•Dream and dreamer•
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Like a flower you bloom
Like a flower you die
So much in silence
While the noise
Sings a lullaby
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Like a dead Chinar leaf
I lay on Jhelum
Jhelum, my home and pyre, both
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In our locked
overly overworked mind
everything is a trap
everything is crap
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On a normal day
I'd just look at the moon
and let it be
but tonight as the tree
offers its protection
I assure myself and them
that some days even the most
magical things
deserve to be held, with care
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Here, have a sip of my memories
make love to my miseries
kiss my pieces, put me to sleep
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All these tragedies of our existence
and
a miracle of survival
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Home,
where I breathe
without having to hear
the sound of my breath.
Home,
where breaths are light
and hopes are always high
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Let me walk you through your miseries,
Allow me to kiss all your anxieties
Let’s sleep through your insecurities
We must wake up to the sound
Of each other’s breath next morning
Our coffee must smell of our being.
