Uneasy Compulsion Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

I asked about you
From the flowers today
In the afternoon
From that happy bird
In the eyes of that little boy
Who was selling chewing gum

I asked about you
From the soft evening breeze
When in the sunset
I saw your image
Lurking on the sky
Behind those clouds

I asked about you
From all the people I met
From the street corner
And an old friend
Who was strangely the same
When he met us years before

That girl who knew us both
I asked her about you
With wide open eyes
She looked at me
With some feelings of love

I want all these friends
Around me for some time
You know my love
Life is an uneasy compulsion
24/10/2008