When Our Ways Parted……. Poem by nusrat jahan

It was neither sorrow nor joy,
I felt like a torched toy.
Dismembered, abandoned, and tussling alone in an empty shelf.

You didn’t bother to take a glance,
Yet I was opting for a second chance.
But we chose the sliding doors, swaying between you and myself.

We laughed at each other that how we became lovelorn,
And now when I think of it - those are the things I will never mourn.
But neither you nor I had the courage to face the truth.

And there were times when we were piddling around,
Our bodies merging into the other- were eagerly listening to the sound.
The sweet sour kinds of sound that season were making; the very wild and uncouth.

Do you remember how we bumped into the sudden sultry breeze!
As we walked through the canyon, the air engulfed us with its subtle tease!
I felt the heavy breathings of yours on my shoulder and my heart skipped from the shivering jitter.

But now our indexes are no longer interlocked since our ways parted,
The warmth that was once locked between two bodies- to someone else it imparted.
We were too blind to see that we were left alone with our souls being sucked up, bruised and bitter.

We kept bickering with each other all the way home for being so foolishly in love,
And our heart was possessed with laughs, titters and tears and everything else was far from being above.
And how I ached for the two souls of becoming strangers to each other that were once so close!

You and I are the two knives laid bare on a table- both stained and drenched in blood,
You and I are the fated murderers of two pure innocent souls- now buried and drowned under mud.