Love Life Of A Loner Poem by Dr Kamran Haider Bukhari

Do you remember?
Lingering nights and petty days of joy stained with despair
Shadows of apprehension and shelters of anticipation
How I used to sit at your feet reading Homer’s Odyssey
Tears of atonement and woes of despondency
Solitude was my destiny and you were made for the world
Barefoot I strolled when you waved me good bye

From each millimeter of your untouched skin
To widespread lands and limitless oceans
I walked and soared merely to fall again and again
From lips anesthetized and paralyzed hands
To promiscuous bodies and reckless hearts
I lived and died purely to survive like the fittest man

Again in seclusion I think of you
Why don’t you leave me alone?
I could have lived the way of wits
I could have died when you left me forlorn
Today I think I should erase
Your name from my heart
Your mark from my soul
Then your eyes speak to me
What would you love, if not me?