Unrequited Desire Poem by Muhammad Shanazar

Unrequited Desire



These open spaces, these scenes,
These verses of the poem, these dreams,
These days and nights of my life,
These loitering steps of Lunacy
In the streets of postponement,
All these demand manifestation
Of your blessed thought.

I wished I could articulate,
The secret of heart,
Or make instrumental my thirsty eyes,
To give vent to mystery of my soul.
I wished to clothe your longings,
With the tattered apron of my own fascination;
But this age has passed in imaginings,
Sometimes in reflecting on the altered moments,
Sometimes in questions emerging from your eyes,
Sometimes seeing my own house,
Now in lights then sinking into utter darkness.
My Love!
Though I couldn't divulge the secret a little,
Yet I lived embracing honeyed memories.

Written by Jagdish Prakash (India)
Translated by Muhammad Shanazar (Pakistan)

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