The severity of my love to gauge <br />I counted your kisses on the face of other <br />Like the one lost in the mist of morning <br />To find the door of house by the color it carries <br /> <br />The hope that night shall bring with the storm <br />Hopes of prayers for my love when enough <br />O separation be not the voices unpleasant <br />From the silence make sweet the presence gentle <br /> <br />Spread the darkness of your hair on my face <br />Let my sleep on your arm be a dream in heaven <br />Talk not of others in the harmony of love <br />My love has the rhythm of the beats of your heart <br /> <br />The living soul has the last struggle though <br />I counted the knots of remorse on your scarf <br />Open to reveal the truths like holy script <br />My love that has spoken to you in immense <br /> <br />On the silk of your hair up the slanted shoulder <br />Much a time that my heart has lamented <br />From the lips that has the redness of cherries <br />Speak the parting verse below the wet of glance <br /> <br />Homer it is said has spoken of gods <br />Not of gods but of your love have I sung <br />Who shall then lift me up to the long haze <br />Tear my heart to see inscribed your name <br />4/12/2009<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-parting-verse/
