The Suspended Moon Poem by Muhammad Shanazar

The Moon has suspended,
In the sky, as memories
Suspend in silences,
Breaths in the memories,
And affairs of the previous day
In breaths.

Where to scamper these winds,
Like heirless children,
Nothing will happen
Though Moon is conquered,
Neither the sky will un-catch
The ring of moon,
Nor the moon will depart
From the patio of sky.

It is indispensable for the moon
To remain lurking in the sky,
Perhaps the sky is helpless too.
As we are the need of each other,
In the same house,
Living under the same roof,
Sharing the same bed,
Counting breaths of each other,
No moment we lived together,
No dream we dreamt together.

Bed-sheets do no retain
Mixed smell of our bodies,
Nor they retain sweet smell
Of breaths of each other,
Every day and every moment,
We just beheld beauty of the eyes.

This evening will vanish away
Like earlier ones,
Silent,
Panting,
Frozen and
Depressed.
We shall remain suspended,
Becoming the need of each other,
Silent, tongue-tied, while seeing
Through the half opened window,
The Moon suspended in the sky.

Written by Jagdish Prakash
Translated by Muhammad Shanazar