Life in Death
Fareeha Khan
What if I die today or tomorrow?
Under the sun or inside a burrow
With pleasure or with sorrow
Demise shrouding today or tomorrow
Numb senses paralyze the ethereal light
Emanating from the sun blinding the sight
Seeing unseeingly and yet the sun is bright
Today or tomorrow, in day or in dark night
What if wondrous darkness prevailing the dark fate
Recede into the oblivion with princely, royal gait
Bright darkness of death pervading every corner of late
Death and demise gnawing at my simple bait
Weave with golden threads the darkness of death
Shroud my own self into the silvery white sheath
The incessant dark hole and unending yearning
Never lasting calling and satanic shrilling
The snarling howling of the wolfish cries
I listen to the shrieks standing by the window
Shadows loomed large and incandescent glow
Blurring my vision and I welcome death behold and lo
The azure oblivion imbues the heart beat with lust of life
The dusky dawn of demise has its own enigmatic cries
Stranded in between life and demise I silently grieve
Life won the case and I live, both life and die
I triumphed and I live my triumphant life with bowed head
Standing forlorn in the corner my triumphant life on a thread
Glistening with tears my victorious life never a word was said
Vanquished death stood in the mid withheld high head