! ! ! ! * * * * * * * A Day At Nowhere Poem by Rehan Hyder

Negotiating the sharp bends of desire
the hands and limbs and
limb and hands... begot dreams that
packed school bags and lunch packs
of a dicey tomorrow

The torchea struggled with taint
and helped sprout suns of hope
Virgin, slumbering freedom
ecstatically stretched
inside the cage of arms

Her silence belittled
violins vile….
and her speech………………………
Ears still ecstatic about
the pilgrimage of my name in her mouth

Indeed there was salvation
in treason of love
But now when tyrant love toppled
and peace restored to land

Acorns of school bags, lunch packs
suns from torcheas
lingering intrigues of languid
spring of flesh
all united underneath rubble

Ah what chasms to undo
what bridges across seven seas
to be built…..
to be blissfully caged again