Rehan Hyder Poems

Poems are not anatomical descriptions
but adjectives of silences
Poems breathe in limbo
petrified of their existence,
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C'mon let's place
the sun and mountains
where they belong
let's do some simple housekeeping
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Underneath this palm
Underneath the burden
of divine indecision
of cloaking or exposing;
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Habitat of heart has shrunk
A rose rubbed against
the jagged edges of life
has bled to opacity
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take me along, when it happens
if the stars and your dreams
and the waterfall of hopes that
defines you so permit
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made love to you this morning
you collected rubies and diamonds
mine was merely sweat
gathered from unseen sea
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Your hazy eyes and stumbling words
Reined in time is all I curse
Wounds said ahoy! ! port hath come
But time has sown an evil furze
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Lifelong voids that love creates:
caresses suspended on limbs
unseen moist on parched lips
an undressing lingering look
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Some funerals are situated
in winding alleys of blood
where earth never dries
and incense burns forever
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I turn the rosary of breath
an excuse to caress the
taut unbroken thread of
your existence
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