Landscape
Paint me a storm that drifts away to the forgotten land
Where pain doth stare; nor do memories evade,
The brushstrokes or the colors
In the corners, ridges of the midst of the canvas;
Where it stays, unknown and forgotten
A land it never escapes,
A blank landscape of tears
Uneven and rigid where the tears had once fallen,
A storm which goes to the land
And never returns
And then amidst the hurricane, paint me a spark
A mild short and intimate urge
Amidst the land of the forgotten
That seeps slowly again into my brain,
In the hush of nights and grim endings of a day,
The spark blowing round and hatching
Glowing and flying
Into a fire,
A blaze, a massive roar
With ashes tinting the colors away;
Of memories, unuttered wishes and sobs
Melting the ridges and eating
The salt terrain of tears
Burning blue, orange, red and then black
Then paint me a drizzle,
To settle the smoke and rinse the earth
Then turn it into a shower
For the start of a new day
I smelled a flower today
Its petals drenched with the drizzle
Yet the scent unperturbed, condensed;
Even warm in the creases at night fall,
Its warmth transcending into my nerves – life
Beneath the solitary blue sky,
Grey and dark its hold
And hushing the remnants of smells,
In the cold silence
The flower – my last ray of hope
In the dead,
Beneath smoke ridden sky,
With ashes clung in the falling droplets
Among heaps of dirt,
Into puddles of broken earth
I smelled the flower,
In a hurry to fill my nerves,
With a mystic tranquility and peace,
Or before a fruit shares its womb
I smelled amidst the metallic buzzing of a nearby wasp,
As it turns against the orchard,
With the wings of a rocket,
And the shells of a drone
I smelled before the falling petals color the puddles,
Dark and grim,
I smelled the flower
When it could.
Saara Samin, is a poet and writer by choice, a blogger, and writes poetry,prose and a hybrid of both for the obituaries of her thoughts. Her short story, ‘The Scent’ appeared in Prachya Review, winter issue. She is currently looking for representation for her novel ‘In the Mirror’ and working on her second novel, and runs a personal blog.
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