Poems forever

The Year

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,

That’s not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go,

We know we dream, we dream we know.

We rise up laughing with the light,

We lie down weeping with the night.

We hug the world until it stings,

We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We live, we love, we woo, we wed,

We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,

And that’s the burden of the year.

Companion: melancholy

By Zahra Zafar

I think I created you from the shadow of my soul

Lurking in the creaks among the phantoms and ghouls

You fed upon my anguish all these years

I revelled in the scars of broken fears

I think I created you from the abyss of my brain

Thinking about the disasters, cherishing the pain

Sad over the things that never really happened

Mad about the people who made it out triumphant

I think I created you from the darkness of my heart

You linger in my veins like the figments of dead stars

They broke me apart but you kept me together

I think when I am melancholic, I feel better.

We don’t talk any more!

By Maryam Shah

The distance feels like an aphelion Two alienated humans;

Living together, One seems dumb

And the other deaf

Or may be both,

Like robots; whose relation

Is as emotionless as they are

It’s a cavern correspondence,

Dark and dismal.

Fate

By MaH Noor

I looked in the mirror

Smiling at me

A shadow appeared

From behind me

My soul ached

For togetherness and love

For happiness and touch

My heart skipped a beat

Remembering the past self

I never wanted to be

My fate is locked

Oh, dear lover!

I feel like a thorn

Not the flower you always see

Will I ever be able

To live a loved life

Or am I going to die

All alone, all alone

Just like you

Compiled by SK