A Lyrical Existence

Hinged
On your hopes
Are my dreams
Like a pregnant thought
Waltzing
On a poet’s lips
Crushed
Under the muse’s smile
Yet brimming
With a lyrical life

Pinned
On your face
Are my smiles
Like a lover’s hope
Playing hide & seek
With his dreams
Fluttered at the prospect
Of a rendezvous
Yet assuring
This is real not a déjà vu

Sinned
Are the thoughts
That play mischief
As we softly hold
Each other’s gaze
Lyrically existing
In a moment
That perhaps
Foretells
The rest of our days

Ó Murtaza Danish Husain
December 29, 2002