Silent Sorrow- Shadab Khan

Tonight,

as I stand in the middle of incomplete us,

I hear the leaves whisper;


They tell me about-

the million sunsets that faded

and the one that lived.


That one sunset in my heart,

which I have

lighted forever.

They tell me about-

How I've been burning in water and

How I never loved you,

drowning in flame.

I lived you.


And I stand there

moon collapse,

while the ocean stills and

into ten thousand fragments of me,

which you could never love;

Or, you just pretend not to?


and I, on our meeting ­bridge

Tonight,

"Only the moon

alone, growing cold"

by knowing-


Every me is longing you;

Longing us.

MD. SHADAB KHAN is pursuing his Bachelors degree in Business from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He was India's youth ambassador to the United States on YES program of the US Department of State during the year 2013-14.