POEMS FOREVER

The Rainbow

By William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

Disassociation

By Zahra Zafar

Clouded brain, caffeinated heart

Tired eyes, ephemeral thoughts

Tangled emotions, itinerant sight

A broken world, a hopeless life.

Who am I?

A lie in disguise

Of delusional truth

With a boundless soul

That strays like a gypsy

In creaks of enchantment

And wander around

In cities unknown.

Truth

By Maryam Shah

She was honest,

Uttered the truth

And expected the truth.

They were spinners of yarn,

Manipulated the truth

Eventually, they killed the truth.

She was the truth.

Come true

By Amna Ameer

I tell you I hate the indoors

And you cage me in a room

I say I crave the sky

But you only let me out at night

I tell you how much I hate rituals

And you tell me to follow each by heart

I don’t like conventional

Yet you are anything but radical

Each thing you do

Is either dictated

Pre-planned or decided for you

My free will each time I look at you

I try to walk paths I think will run parallel to yours

We never intersect and somehow that never bothered you

I tell you I don’t believe in destinies

Yet we are destined to be doomed

I thought I could fight depression

But the biggest weight holding me from living is you

I say I would like to add flowers to the garden

You say you’re out of time

So precious time that only counts for you

None for my pursuits

I can only breathe borrowed air

I can only wear forgotten bruises

You say you love me

I don’t think it is true

Love doesn’t mean to be conformed

To your likings

It doesn’t mean to out everyone else’s happiness except ourselves

It doesn’t mean nothing changes in your life

And I have to sacrifice

Everything till my time is due

In this lie of love I wait

Patiently for my reel to end

Make the final appearance

Let the curtains fall

Once and for all

And this pretend play

Ends at a high note

They will say

Oh, they loved each other so

It’s true

But that’s a thing about

Pathological liars

They make you believe

In happy endings

That never came true