Parray Shahid

Hit on the head
Once in a while
Once in a day
Every day;
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Come with me,
Pour me your trust;
For I cannot see,
See you dart,
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Ere thou claim from ancestors and birth,
A place in heaven, a piece of earth;
Thou shall re-invent in much nobler thought,
The true human-art, the true human-worth;
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Centuries are done!
But my land and I exist yet,
Under the visage of desolation,
Camouflaged by an arrogant power;
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Loved, Hated, Dominated;
I seek an answer,
For I am created-
Why? With a skin
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Your love for me brings
A world beyond consciousness
And swooningly infallible
Searing away the repentant vows
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Wilt thou recall my name
Throughout our resolute parting game
- And after?
Or will it deaden and die
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With you,
Shall my worldly rest be gone
And shall I be passed
Like the dead are passed on;
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Long, long shall my thoughts lean
Uptill that secret hour
The sacred array of moments
That, in time, have passed
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Ever since arrived the days
Of wicked youth and folly
And did sicken, irk me
The thought of love;
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To me only
You must return
From all world's enmity
Come, and you'll find
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Look me in the eye
Look where I've been
Follow me, follow all the trials
Follow, for I long to be seen;
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The lull lays hither
Haughtily burgeoning
Staring into me, thus,
An unruly enough quiet
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Tonight,
As I lay, pretending
A deep pleasant sleep
The pang seems to abandon me not
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Who runs this city now? -
Is it God? - Or God no more?
He cares not - asks not - sees not -
As the hymns flush out in death's sight -
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Strenghtlessly melted:
I find my senses reeling
And turned into a slave
‘tis might of my pen
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Let the rain splash incessantly,
And wash away with its flow;
These pangs of sorrow that linger,
Resting upon my brow;
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Turn not deaf to the stern clamor,
Frozen upon my mourner's lip;
Whose cry has weakened the desire in me,
Desire to rest in the arms of slumber;
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I stay bereaved
By a past so indelible,
Knowing no single interstice to escape,
To guide a soul out of misery;
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