Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Replying to a letter

I ll write till the day i see you, every cry i heard when you left.
 I ll write every line of misery with the blood you gave me. 
 You have filled my ink pot and gave me the slates as walls of my place 
and a stick you shaped as a pen.
 Everytime i dip it into the ink of your blood it buds flowers,
 but i sear I won't let them bloom but only on the slates. 
We don't want flowers without you my brothers. 
 I promise i ll write everyday and give you a book with pages equal to the deaths I witness after you.
 I hope I never get to more than a page and i pray that page is of my death. 
 As I want to write but do not fill my ink pot anymore.
 It ll flood my floor and it stares while I write with it. 
 Give me any ink but not red. 

 ~Shafaq Shahid

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