Never Friends Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Painful,
Albeit lovers
Were we friends,
We were never friends.

Acquaintances
Of clichéd words,
Waiting
For the train, listening
To the whistle
To go our way,
We were never friends.

Fragrance
You left by my side,
We are
With the bullet’s speed
Going opposite
On tracks,
Never to cross
We were never friends.

Freed
Each explore
Solitude of own,
A grin enough
To the dried rose,
To the bin goes
Perfumed silk-crushed,
We were never friends.

Closed
The windows
Morning sun,
And may
The spring breeze
Autumn’s soliloquy
Butterfly’s wing
Ladybird’s caress, -tell
We were never friends.

We
Of each other’s
Knowing
Escape,
And return
To ourselves
Borrowed moments,
Happy smiles –
We were never friends.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
February 26,2014.

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