By Bushra Mustafa
Lost in thy abyss,
the heart twinges so hard.
Yet my words shackle,
for the voice has been lost .
Thoughts bewildered by presence,
my eyes relentlessly sketch thy might
Alone ashore, I capture the sight,
but aroma is echoing.
I’ve lost you,
near the abyss;
somewhere we had once met,
somewhere we had captured,
us!
By Sidra Nasir
Lost myself in the labyrinth of life,
In the impenetrable network of lies
And betrayal.
In the abyss of dishonesty
And hate.
I searched for an exit, I searched for an escape
Only to realize that I was stuck in this maze.
By Ayman Ijaz
Everything just fades into view
As I go far into the dark
Everything seems so new
As I travel past the mark
I start at a point
And end up at the same one
Realize I haven’t travelled a mile
Before I am tired and done
This world is infinite
But I just keep walking
I don’t stop for a minute
And I just keep going
I have never been so curious
To travel past the stars
Haven’t travelled a path as perilous
As the one that leads to MARS
My experience reminds me
This world is infinite
Rising hopes advise me
Never to stop, not for a minute
Because this world is infinite
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d banish us - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one’s name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
By Laraib Zakir
Maybe holding onto is tiring,
Excruciatingly draining of what is left.
It’s a little melancholy that goes a long way,
Something that withers you away.
Although wilted, you still want it to stay.
That is why
After waiting for so long
The mind betrays the heart,
Heart that yearns to cling on
For a little longer.
But how long is that little longer?
It’s too far-fetched ever to come back,
Infinitely fabricated to ever become true
And too abstract even to exist.
Comes the brittle answer.
The damage is what
I wish to reverse.
All I now want is the life
Before I met you.
The once strong belief starts to fade away
In a room flickering with doubts,
The fainted arguments
Gradually die, over and over again
Until they are finally buried.
Taking your name for the last time
The heart skips a beat.
A calm then settles
And that is when I ask you
What have I been waiting for this long?
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