Your Love Is My Only Hope

Your love is my only hope

The balcony to my failing life

Wherefrom I see

The horizons of my unveiling dreams

The sunset of my bygone days

And night

While I sense your presence

In absence

I count stars as each day of my life lived

And watch the fading moon of my passion

Grow back again

To its full glory

Identity Crises

Disillusioned

By my nightmares

Frightened

Often out of sleep

In the middle

Of many uneventful nights

I spend rest of my insomniac time

Washing my eyes

Smoothening

Two lost pebbles

Of many sleepless dreams

And doubts

Dreaming Freedom

Your love is a strange feeling

It is like dreaming about freedom

In the courtyard of prison

Earth Is Flat

Earth is flat

Not round

Not spherical

Had it been otherwise

You would have come around

Back to me

World is but one broken mirror

World is but one broken mirror

I am the beggar

Of this world

I scavenge for mirrors

On the streets

Of your love

Scraping together broken reflections

All my life

Hoping

One day

I see you all at once

Scratch My Retina

(In conversation with my torturer)

I am not caffeinated mornings

Or their lazy yawns

Printed across newspaper they read

Benevolent with daily doses

Of delusional truths

I am not the subject

Of their calculated headlines

The impassioned uncivilized person

In their crafty columns

And precisely captured photographs

I am not a footnote

They quote me tirelessly

In defense of their education

Their obsession

Only amuses me

Like a dog

Playing in the park

Fetching the ball religiously

Every time it’s is thrown away

Freedom is a secret

We all have to deserve it

I have a secret place

Called freedom

I live there

Don’t bother to search it

The map is etched

On the walls of my retina

You want my secret

Look straight into my eyes
Scratch my retina

You in You, I in I

You and I

A pair

Of migratory birds from the island

Called freedom

Look what has become of us now!

Caught in our own mortal cages

You in You

I in I

How long we wait!

When shall we fly back to our island?

How long we stay!

Caught in our own mortal cages

You in You

I in I