Your Shadow In Darkness Poem by Nusrat Perveen

I stretched my arms in darkness,
to reach your shadow.
Shadow in the darkness?
My mind reminded,
how could I?
Am I out of my mind?
But what if it were more painful,
more stern to be in senses!

It was insane indeed!
but I wanted to be there with you.
To feel the sensation of your being around,
even if being insane was the only way.

I saw your arms stretching towards me,
was it to hold mine?
I questioned, as a trembled, what if it was'nt.

And then there was something,
something that was never supposed to be.
You were around me,
close... so close that
I could feel your beats,
could smell your skin!

No...! I screamed, I haven't lost my senses,
my heart shattered and I felt it.
My arms stretched, moved, to touch you,
but hesitated,
what if I lost you;
the moment the darkness disappears,
the moment I touched you?

And I knew it was not true,
this moment with you,
it was too beautiful to be true.

And finally it came, a flash, a glow,
too hard to bear;
but I remained there,
still, eyes closed, as I saw you disappearing
slowly amidst the mighty rays of sun.

You disappeared as you were never there,
and I remained, still, waiting for the darkness;
to engulf the rays, to turn me insane.
And ever since then, every new day I wait;
for the pitch black night to bring your shadow again.