Through The Skies Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Lo! hope had taken wings
When saying was like a night's storm,
Whispers slipped by the ear
Is lullaby is to get to your dreams?

The pale dawn returned the moon's light
Shadows of distant lands were no more
And no other than nightmares,
The sweet wind shall evoke no memories.

The gradual fall was like a haunt
In the rock like the ancients dig houses.
Of the glossiness of landscape,
Of the mirrors where hid the Mona Lisa.

Turning back on the moon to follow the sun
Stars are no more visible whether north or south,
There was a long tale of no consequence
My sensibilities now touch the ground.

Some dragonflies were hurled on me
Some white petals of flowers,
I close one door and open another
I breathe my longing through the skies.

Islamabad
Sept 29,2010