Longing

My eyes wander 
Over every face that I see 
So that I may catch some resemblance of you 
I breathe in the air 
Not so for the need to live 
But so I may catch somehow a whiff of your fragrance 
Perhaps gone astray from where you stand 
I revisit the places close to your home 
And reach out to touch clefts, least you ran your blessed hands on them 
Over some point in time 
My mind is spent in devising nefarious plots and schemes
To give me one good reason I could call you again 
I run harder and harder 
Kick start my dead beat heart 
I open my chest to let in air 
Dizzy with exertion 
There is no picture painted like you 
There can be no perfume that can replicate your heavenly redolence 
No feel in this life that can match your healing touch 
No pain worse than your absence around me
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Saleem  Avatar
February 25, 2016 at 3:10 AM
Thank you for reading Hafssa.
Aj Avatar
February 24, 2016 at 2:42 PM
nice poem tfs :)
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