**like Another Day Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

We need not in the horrific silence
Born out of head struck with stone
The silence of the one who sees
Death as the angel waiting
Terrified for the crime of living
The biggest complement on ears
Deaf or the nerves cut for emotions
In expressionless gallery of colors
We come and go without seeing
The shine in the eyes goes dull
Instead that the smile on face
The sitting in the corner was long
The abstraction of images drawing
In meaningful overtures to no avail
Like another day hopes procrastinated
The reluctant steps in any direction
To the trivia in pieces from steps up
The warmth of the basement under
The other corner among many
Waiting for a welcoming smile
I had to kill the self further more
As I extend into the trivial
I felt we were too apart to be friends
Idealized poverty makes difficult
Choices already shrinking as life
The gain fizzles in nothingness
Whatever the gain that has gone
With collective memory if remembered
Now stuck in comparisons of lust
Of love and the lessons in the eternality
A tired soul in thinking that the structure
Carrying naught the burden carnal
Still hoping to live longer
30/3/2009

From: The Corner