Defeated Steps - Defaced Aches Poem by Nayyar Afaq

My soul mate!
Don’t ask about my (deflowered) dreams;
My false, hollow and coward dreams.

I spent my evening with a night fly,
(To write a poem on love.)
But morning brought the emblem of Nox*,
And word by word, my pen bled an epic of hoax.

I wished to have an ocean of affection,
To flow over my palms.
(But it was only the sand, my reward.)

Don’t ask about my defaced aches.
I offered to throw away my Eden to hell.
(But it burnt my hands.)

At the end,
I turned back to home,
With defeated steps.
But I lost my way in the barren lands.


* Nox = Roman goddess of night

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