Water Under Straw Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Like water under straw
In slow movements
When you did move away
From my life without any sign
For you looked at the wreck
With no desire to have a word

like a dead sparrow your love
No breath of life or struggle
For freedom or into captivity
With you are gone all symbols here
In lightness like a small evening
In honor of those who mean nothing

In nothingness we live for your eyes
In emptiness like I never experienced
Into the alleys under the sun
I looked for your signs but none there
Give not the heart in hurry my love
Strange are ways wait some moments

We did not live the way it ought
As never was it meant to be that
But one day you shall tell me about
The way you looked the glimpse last
A message of love you have still
If only I could stop you a while
29/11/2008