MY LIFE, MY HEART, MY BRIGHTNESS

میری جان، میرے دل، میرا چاند

MERI JAAN, MERE DIL, MERA CHAAND

My life, my heart, my brightness

For Ahmad Razvi. my love.


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MERI JAAN

And when this day is over, and many more have passed,
There will still be this longing for my days to spend with you.
To not just this one day,
Not just one year,
Or this one moment,
Spend with you.
Let this horrid time of separation quickly be surpassed,
Even by the slightest of smiles and hints of laughter from you.
My life.


MERE DIL

This sound of coming home, of being safe, of living.
When I close my eyes I am there, just there.
Nothing more.
Just that steady
Beating, that
Soft tapping.
I want it in my ear, not in my mind’s eye, this giving
Of warmth and timeless tenderness, right there,
My heart.

MERA CHAAND

And in the darkest of night, with not even a moon,
When nothing, nothing breaks the terror felt and seen.
Nothing there
But this void.
That emptiness,
And despair.
My eye catches that one star, sparkling, saying: soon
Soon. It will never be as dark as it has once been.
My brightness.

© Darren White