Mehreen Mujeeb Poems

My clouds keep getting heavier
Please tell me if they’re clouds
Or just mist floating by
What lies in those clouds
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Talking to myself
I don’t know what to say
I don’t know myself
I don’t know anyone else.
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Can people please stop driving cars;
Screeching on striped, glossy roads.
On mother earth’s bare skin we have made scars,
By those rugged tyres that scorch.
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Love is carried as a burden
As a load tied around your back
You expect your lover to carry your load
And trip in all your cracks.
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Lightening sparkles in the clouds
As it pierces through the misty sky
The deafening thunder ignites the darkness
As the winds begin to cry
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With her stiletto nails
She scrapes dried blood from wounds
Blood chips off making trails
She follows trails bleeding.
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A layer of tears coat my eyes
To keep it from the cold
When glaciers form
They avalanche down.
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My tears burn ditches
While ploughing down my face
Flames of feelings still arsonise
Even when else fell to dust.
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And it is the colour within
It is the shade of my sin
The melancholy in my grin
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I follow lightning
To see the sky's broken torch
I follow thunder
To watch the sky scream.
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