*i Exist Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

It never was again
When on insistence love germinated
Like incense it breaths its attitude
The aroma in the hairs when touched
With lips for a kiss before it goes
Deeper to the glandular chemistry
I am like a sculpture conveying deep cuts
Stone eyes and helpless arms
Again the rose blossomed
The red tulip cup so deep
The offerings are just one time
Happenings once out of sight
Out of mind love goes to come
Memories haunt but it is proved
In rush of hour when time lets nothing
The ordinariness exposed when unveiled
The statue sits alone when days of holiness
Gone and he is weeping for bygone days
In the garden when autumn takes away
Wailing is but the fortune on the flower
The corner of the holy wall as I place
My hand to see what the will of God
The enrichment is like wine in my blood
To the dawn or dusk in the moon
I exist or I do not exist or I exist
Not to exist or I do not exist to exist
I have no answer
11/3/2009