Your eyes have beheld me
And I behold you
We are locked in each other’s web of expectations
And now I’m aroused
By the Sun’s brilliant piercing light
And your shadow blinds me
You have eclipsed my every accomplishment
My Hopes
My Fears
My Love
And I cower before you
While my presence is fleeting
Lingering
Somewhere
Down there
In the periphery
Hoping to attach to the blackness of your hair
But you are above it all
Like a golden statue dripping with blood
Above it all
In a heavenly sphere
And I wait here in hellish cubicles
Recording death and its future states…
And yet I have entertained thoughts
To smother death in its afternoon siestas
And all it would take would be you to validate my
Kiss
Smack!
And I’m rebirthed… or resurfaced from the floods
Which consumed me
And now I’m gurgling this song
Maybe it will make sense if you hear it
And if you hear it you can continuously validate it
And perhaps validate me
And validate my words by your lips
Because if you don’t
They will fade away
I’m diminishing
And there it goes
Just like this present
And another moment
Destined
to be forgotten by your lips.
© A.R. Minhas 2017
