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Poetry of Burhan

Updated: Aug 1



"REPLY FROM THE UNKNOWN LADY"

(Reply to a poem by Saqlain Mustaq)


Here is your letter - unmarked and unnamed

"To an unknown lady" - the bemusing envelope,

I wonder how it arrived.


Inside, the script of a rover -

curious about beautiful ladies.

Words spill like a secret confession,

a tapestry of lust and loss.


I was just gazing at your torn shoe,

you took it to heart otherwise.

No, I never forgot you

I too, am a poet of fleeting lovers


A negative reply, yet not an end

The letter rests now in my hands

try again, I am waiting for another.



 

"EXISTENTIAL ANGST" I am sick of earth, a disconnection of breath is all to mail my bones in half-rates for cineration is not working well enough. Wrap me with bare dreams see if you can veil my body, I have loved on the December clouds, no mortal can see me naked. I am overexposed, I am as far as Chile, I am purposely mad, you can build a whole life with only three worlds - I love you. More fleshy than a pig, earth will refuse my history, did I ever live here,

once it had a cave named Hira.




















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