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For What Should I Speak
by
Uzma Sadaf
What should I say to you
What should I write to you
I have changed, very much changed
I have separated myself from all joys and all sorrows
I have changed very much.
I don’t have any feelings of the cold nights of winter
I don’t have any feelings of the long hot summer days
My body has become indifferent to the changing seasons
And this has happened only with the change
Of a glimpse of your eyes
This has changed all the seasons within me
The yellow leaves have fallen in the heavy snow
And I have been buried under these leaves
I don’t know for what should I open my eyes
For what should I breathe
Every thing outside has changed altogether
What remains….. nothing
My hands are empty
There are the curved lines in them
These are speaking against me
There is only a torture left
Such as some body has put acid to my eyes
Drop by drop
As if some body has placed burning coal on my heart
But I cannot open my tongue
I am unable to understand anything
What should I say to you, only
That you were a season that passed away
It passed away like rains
And what should I say that I have also changed like you
That I have also become insensitive like you
Now the changing seasons do not affect me
Nothing would happen even if you come back now
Nothing
Another season would pass
What should I say more.
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