
Hasham Khalid
poem # 2
When will I crawl out of
These self imposed hesitations
And walk with lucid steps
Towards the scene of the gentle truth
And embrace the dandelions swinging in the rain
Spread on the air
The fine tuning of our senses
Wakened to the season’s gift of fruits
The dark sweetness of mangoes
The empty chairs
Where loneliness abides
In its most perilous form
And darkness threatens
To upend the stream
From its habitat of fish and water
I see the sun reflected
In river’s undulating mirror
And at once it shows me lost
At other found
In such polarities I swim
The fireflies rise in the evening
To strings sweet voice
I am guided to
Mix my thoughts with the flickering
light of fireflies in the forrest
I am gone with the wind
To a sparkling heaven.
Hasham Khalid is a poet from Karachi, Pakistan. His poetry is inspired by the organic life of the cities he has lived in. He has been published in the Lovers Literary Journal, the Madrigal Press, Cephalo press and Amsterdam Review.