! ! ! ! ! ! “ Will You Marry Me? ” Poem by Rehan Hyder

Once more un tethered from
Stupendous superfluity of
A treacherously done flesh
Unmoored undone, vows wrung out
From sheets of eternal bliss ….. the ethereal tryst
This time I’d trained, so jumped
Over the hemispheric chasm
I’ve brought to you my itching knees
I’ve brought the upward supplicant slant
Of my head….. I’ve come to blaspheme
For the colour of my origin
Prohibits my forehead to lay it on any bethel
But I’m here for I’ve erased my footprints
And ate the morsels as I walked to you
Don’t send me back…… for the ways I treaded
Have been rolled and sent to laundry
Let me in so I may hold you and
Lose myself for ever