Alone Alone Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Lo! I am in preparation

My left hand scrolls verse

My right a cup of wine

I am no more making verdicts

The delicacy of nature

Abounds to extant

Keep the cup away

And the beloved no more

On my fate angels now ponder

Where he belongs to?

And from where returneth?



Alone alone!

The dark sweet mists of love

So the horizon is silver

This night

I said good bye to the Groove

As I went on to engage

Myself with its past

And the one who shall possess it

After me



Some trees grow strange flowers

As some plants creep on them

I hold some roses

In my hands as memories

I had some wishes come true

I had some sighs

Mixed with wine

I had all the abundance

I had all the beauty of the world



(On my last day in the Groove)



Islamabad

Jan 6,2011