...The Dawn Calls... Poem by Shahzia Batool

“How short time is! ”
“telling Me? ”
“nopes! just reminding myself”
“I worked hard; still what I wish is beyond the moon”
“the moon is unattainable”
“that’s hard”
“that’s true”
“ah, yes…but then, it’s hard”
“have a look! The sun dips”
“yeah, it sinks”
“dips here, gonna rise, somewhere else”
“it’ll be dark soon”
“the stars will décor the dark, you wait and see”
“hmm, that’s life”
“what’ll you do now? ”
“I? , smoke life in metaphors, I’ll think poems”
“you’ll burn yourself”
“I extinguish myself”
“the sun will be up again”
“huh, to sink again, somewhere else”
“YOU…..”
“oh ok, but will it not sink again? , d'you deny it? ”
“the time flies”
“yeah, a relief”
“what’s a heart? ”
“an aching spot, why need asking? ”
“but then, aching’s life”
“depends, how you take it”
“i…take it, aching, burning, bleeding”
“the dead don’t bleed”
“oh, be quiet…”
“truth is unshunnable”
“hey, look! not dark yet, strange”
“the stars and starlets, glowing, a ransom for the sun”
“can’t you forget? ”
“you want death of me? ”
“trees might be listening to us, they breathe”
“let them…”
“ask them to get away from here”
“whom…? ”
“the stars…”
“they’re friends”
“I’m jealous, let the sun come up, let me die in chores”
“escaping? ”
“I wish I could! ”
“regretting? What? ”
“they kill me without knowing they’re killing me”
“you are lonely? ”
“sometimes, when they are with me, not when I’m really alone”
“tears are worthless”
“priceless”
“worthless, especially when none’s there to …”
“you stay here”
“I’m inevitable, where’ll I go! ”
“you’re precious”
“let’s fly from here”
“not that I’m rooted, my wings are not yet open, can’t trust them”
“you never tried? ”
“I never will…”
“hey, look…some light”
“I suspect the sun…”
“think of the right word”
“I knew it, I’ll die in daylight, they’ll keep me, possess me, I’ll be not me”
“hogwash! You’ll change”
“not my choice”
“you had a vision once”
“my heart aches still”
“life’s calling …say Hi! ”
“will you….? ”
“see, don’t you delude yourself…”
“…..stay with me? ”
“let me go, you stay good, write poems, live life, love colors…not bad”
“you trust me? ”
“I know you live, when you care to”
“I’m incorrigible, but, you know me…where’s my avatar? ”
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