Anas Merchant

Genocide of feelings

 

 

Let us kill ourselves, with lie and deception

Different universe, similar perception

 

Create an unholy constitutuon,

From it remove karmic retribution

 

My soul is bulldozed with trial and turmoil

Your energy is a nurturing, fertile soil

 

You’ll be the garden, built upon my grave,

My tombstone will say, “the poet was brave”

 

All your darks and all your greys,

All your nearness and distant days,

 

All your love which you kept at bay

A muse for whom every poet would pray

 

No ear should hear you, no hand should touch,

No mind should think of you, stuck in my clutch

 

I’ll haunt your existence like a spectre,

I’ll keep you beautiful in my boiling nectar

 

I witnessed a phenomenon, my dagger was gone,

At the time of dawn, a crime scene was drawn

 

The moon has stains on it, the night has been killed

A secret keepers secrets were spilled

 

A murder of such tender scale, the stars would justify,

Moon loved only the night, while the night loved the whole sky

 

  In this genocide of feelings, let us both take part

You stab my spirit, I’ll stab your heart

 

Slit the throat of grace, in its blood take shower

And feel the pain of the plant, while its soul departs from a flower

- ANAS MERCHANT