Posthumous Confession

No my dear

No!

She didn’t kill me!

She would never do

Such horrible thing to me

She just left

And that killed me

Eternal Love, Mortal Life

Even though

I outlived the grief

You caused me

I couldn’t outlive

Our love

It’s long

Longer than your indifference

And the cold seasons of your heart

Unseen Eyes

My friends ask me

Muzammil!

You write so much

About her 

In your poems

Do you really love her that much?

I smile and only tell them

You 
My dears
Haven't seen her eyes!

If Only

Unlike us

The couples

I see at the station

Meet

At exact agreed upon time

They kiss and hug each other

But not with our lips and arms

They smile at each other

With eyes which are not ours too

They hold each other’s hands

And walk towards home

But not our home

Which is empty

Dead

With unnatural silence

Of our absence

The only clue

To our frightful presence there

Is the broken vase on the floor

And the empty wall

Where the square-mark

Of the picture

In which you and I

Were kissing

Is still hanging

I go to station often

To watch couples

Kissing

Hugging

Hand-holding

Home-walking

And I think to myself

This could have been us!

This could have been us

If only

You would have kissed me

Hugged me

Held my hand

And walked home with me

That fateful night

If only…

Jawaab

When I met her

After ages of longing

On the reluctant shores of her arms

I asked her

What do you want me to do?

She silently

Writes my name on the sand

Like a rumour

Smiles

Like a shrewd politician

Of emotions

Promises everything

Like some mythic God

Runs her fingers

Through my hairs

Cups my face in her palms

And says

I want you to be my slave, forever!

Fatal Dance

She dances like a snake over me

Bites me on my lips

And asks me

How fatal was that my love?

Footprints Of Spring

Half inch snow

Foot long shoes...

I walk reluctantly

Breaking the white path ahead

The white blanket of snow

Is laid out perfectly

Like the dark night

Of sadness

I melt balls of cold snow

In my palms

Like I melt your memories

In the snowy white

Of my sleepless eyes

Winter is harsh season

For lovers

Snow is a huge mask

Hiding the pain underneath

It’ll take months

Years may be

Before you bring spring along…

I search endlessly

For your footprints