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 Apr 2018
Mohd Arshad
Smoke solidifies in streets.
Fire widens like the evening.
Syrians are in furnace fuelling.
I'm tired of such scenes oft.
UNO is a hollow container.
Nations are tottering throng.
Humanity is an autumn tree.
We're figures on the canvas.
 Apr 2018
Mohd Arshad
All aged efforts,
Going down the drain,
Dare with Intrepidity
To kidnap happiness.
Address isn't a spider
In the corner
Or somewhere else
Behind the door.
It's the wind,
Walking and wandering.
Whet thy kindness
To blandish,
And truss of thy neighbour,
Of a beggar, of a bride
Or of a playing child
With thy hope,
If you could see it
With any of them.
Remember,
It flies like the ghost.
 Mar 2018
Mohd Arshad
Snowflakes
on the bed.
Moonlight
on the couch.
Blossoms
in the lap.
Sweetsop
in arms.
Love song
on lips.
 Mar 2018
Mohd Arshad
Delay if fear roams free.
Chain it. Go uninterrupted.
 Mar 2018
Mohd Arshad
A sense  of humour out of everything
Is an art to create tickling out of the dead
 Mar 2018
Mohd Arshad
There's nothing sweet like sorrow
That springs from the lips of a morrow
It's yours and you were a joyous jay
And you soared in your breezy way
Sadness struck you as the eve fell
But you knew it is the ring of a bell
That would pass over in no time
And you'd fly again to sing your rhyme.
 Mar 2018
Mohd Arshad
It's luck or choice
to be a soldier,
For a mother,
is a difficult question.
Her piling up pain
she masticates,  
Since her son
braved at the border,
And after much toil
he couldn't survive.
It's an enterprise
for the whole family,
And for her
a great sacrifice for the nation,
Wrapped up with
selfishness and corruption.
Who knows her own desert
Where blossoms will never bloom?
Who cares of her eyes,
Catching his face in the air,
Vanishing in a blink of an eye?
Who thinks of his wife and children,
Rebuilding the broken walls
of their house?
Is being a soldier a wrong turn
At the particular intersection?
Is being a soldier honest devotion?
You could offer your two cents.
Your right.
Her right? Her happiness?
Her life?
Luck and choice
are chalk and cheese.
Life travels through
rough stones, a pause.
But living such a life is a forgotten  tragedy.
 Mar 2018
Mohd Arshad
Always hate hate not fate
If you do that's only waste
Always love love not hate
If you do that's not your fate
 Mar 2018
sunflower
I'd like to be alone,
but I don't want to be lonely.

I'd like to be in hope,
but I don't want to be hopeless.

I'd like to be in love,
but I don't want to be broken.

I'd like to be sad,
but I don't want to be weak.
For when I'd like to be 'me', but I don't want to be 'her'.

ㅡn.s
 Mar 2018
Michelle Morine
Destruction follows
my shadow
Failure waits
forming shapes
of your silhouette
deep behind the distance
lying in quicksand
spiting you out
Suffocating in your snare
steal the light
fight this night
fading in
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