A Separation Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Extricate the roots, separate your wings,
Make little noise, nor your steps speak,
Allow the pain to dissolve and slowly ooze,
Be gentle like under a straw water flow
Of your dried petals, pick them all.

Of the airs whom you bestowed thus, take
Them all. Let the touches on doors you open,
And look not back, lest the distance may seem,
A desert’s journey, and years may fall.

O from beneath the secret love’s nights
Do not forget, pull the threads of dust,
And like on every day’s beginning leave me
Asleep, for the chores to occupy me when awake.

Sadiqullah Khan
Gilgit
June 11,2015.