#Poetry ‘Redden My Parched Lips’ by Fiza Pathan
Redden My Parched Lips
By Fiza Pathan
Why did you sing your sigh for another aeon?
Why does your voice chant into my nerves like a flute?
Yet why is my sky so dark and black, after you have said-you’re not coming back.
Now every sound I hear scratches my eardrums in pain,
Your words of hate are louder than the barking dog’s curse.
Why do you have to leave my world with all my luggage-and me all alone, in my sea of tears.
You were the one I wished to love forever, so I drink your gift of sorrowful teardrops in a cup of wine.
You were the one I needed most, to drown into another ocean of hopes.
But, you moved away-you said you moved the clouds towards my thunder.
The world you have left is yet untamed, this world is my heart and its King is you.
I can’t go on begging the drums of the afterlife for mercy, for the sages have always hated lovers.
So my betrothed one, this is my last adieu to you-set your sail and go away from this shore of my terrain.
But in heavens name let me know how to drown myself in red wine-how to cut my flesh to redden my parched lips.
Copyright © 2013 by Fiza Pathan
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