Naveed Saraf

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Endowed with the fringes of burned wood,
Decorated with frivolous ornaments,
See I cannot carry the weight of my arms,
The veins have hardened, see I don't breathe.
...

As I walk past the sun's rosy cheeks,
And leave behind its realms,
Amongst the narrow paths,
'tween the torn nests:
...

What shall become of the hand?
that stretches to shroud the womb,
and strangulate the voice of a mother
into the dark streets of the mid-night sun.
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The knees are hugged to the stomach,
The toes now touch the dust on the ground,
See the arrival of hope hasn't been so easy.
The morning sun didn't come for many days,
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and reaped in green terraces;
and sighs that make the pen sweat,
and the nails labor in drops of seeds;
beneath the tangled curls,
...

What then of Rain is heard?
Not the shape. Not what It sounds like.
The world now stays far,
far off the nakedness,
...

There reaches a time:
When blood refuses to marry the body;
When eyes tremble across the periphery;
When the morning dew is endeared with torn grass;
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What Wealth I Have Collected

Endowed with the fringes of burned wood,
Decorated with frivolous ornaments,
See I cannot carry the weight of my arms,
The veins have hardened, see I don't breathe.

Thee may not see the blood that has dried,
But haste not through my eyes,
Do they look as they must?
Pause through the haw-thorns of the eye-lids,
Dried dust may not attract thee,
But the modesty of their stay shall seem profound.
Wait if you can, for the dusk to fall,
I shall have the nests infested with the birds.

Wait for the harvest, if you can,
You will hark back to the clothes of a begger-
Torn, arrested, heated in furnace.
Wait for the harvest and you shall see my skin.

See you cannot hang me with a trusted sinew,
Moribund cries must be forgiven of the morass.
You see I have come to a motley crew of sighs,
Where I have my hands stitched to my pockets,
Wait till the skin melts,
You shall see what wealth I have collected.


Wait till the skin melts, and
You shall see what wealth I have collected...

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