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Attaf Alvi Aug 11
Four walls, no seasons,
only the hum of my own thoughts
pacing in circles,
wearing the floor thinner than time itself.

The light here never changes,
it does not rise, it does not set,
it only stares back at me
like an unblinking warden.

I talk to silence until it learns my name,
and in its hollow voice,
I hear every conversation
I will never have.

Freedom isn’t the door;
it’s the knowing someone waits behind it.
And I have no such knowing.
Attaf Alvi Jul 14
She says she doesn’t like blue,
but I’ve seen it fall around her
like it was meant to,
like the sky had always waited
for someone just like her.

Truth is,
she could wear any color,
and the color would be lucky.
Attaf Alvi Jun 30
missing you isn’t an ache anymore,
it’s architecture.
i live in it.
Attaf Alvi Jun 30
You weren’t naïve for loving, just unprepared for how beautifully pain could dress itself.
Attaf Alvi Jun 30
She walks, and morning learns to blush,
With every step, the roses rush.
The stars, once proud, now dim their light,
For in her eyes, they lose the fight.

Her smile,like dawn that breaks the gray,
It turns my darkest thoughts away.
No poet’s ink, no painter’s hue,
Could ever capture all she’s due.

She doesn’t know, she’ll never see,
How much of her lives deep in me.
She breathes, and all the world feels right,
She speaks, and silence takes its flight.

Each time she laughs, the heavens bloom,
The winds themselves make softer room.
The sky I see is not the same,
Since the day I whispered her name.

She's not just beauty carved in grace,
She's warmth, she’s wonder, time, and place.
And every time she meets my eye,
The whole of me fills with her sky.
Attaf Alvi Jun 30
I'm in shackles, not looking for keys,
No dreams of escape, no silent pleas.
The iron hugs me like a fate I chose,
But this pain, this ache, only I know.

One by one, I break my bones,
Not in hope, not to atone.
Each crack sings like a prayer gone wrong,
A mournful verse in a forgotten song.

They do not see the blood I spill,
The silent wars, the quiet ****.
They think I sleep, they think I breathe,
But I’m unraveling beneath each sheath.

These shackles aren’t just forged in steel,
They’re made from every wound I feel.
And as my flesh gives in to dust,
So does my soul, so does my trust.

Each snap, a scream that no one hears,
Each fracture, stitched with ghosts and fears.
Not breaking free, but breaking down,
Stripped of name, stripped of crown.

No freedom waits at the end of this game,
Just pieces of me too worn to name.
But still I crack, bone after bone,
Tearing away till I’m fully gone.

Let them wonder what silence means,
I was never bound by chains,
I was bound by me.
Attaf Alvi Jun 19
to melt into the silence between moments
to slip through the cracks of now and vanish
to forget the shape of my name
to be a shadow unchained from the sun
to outgrow even the ache of wanting
to rest where nothing remembers me
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