@ Such Is Your Way Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

O tie me not in the pledge of your love,
The untangled knot of your hair,
I knew you had not been waiting;
What else for the heart- the wayfarer.

The sorrow of the dreamer
Having seen a butterfly turned human;
The vision though is not a prologue,
For the lover, the impossibilities immense.

What fancies, what desires you espouse,
Such is your way, and such your demeanor;
Such has been your affairs, such your love.
The whole body was singing in the music;
The dervish’s whirl had such a sway.

You want me to forget and absolve myself
What from and how, as with closed eyes;
I see your contours, like an asp, like breeze
Like the green leaf after a heavy downpour.

I am tormented, in this languor, in this love,
To the fate I have given up, to the age alas!

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
April 4,2013.

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