Unanswered Questions
Why?
She whispered to him as he walked away.
Why?
She heard it like a breeze of wind
That carries away
Unfurls itself in the softest of ways.
Why?
As her eyes fill and empty themselves of
This delicate deluge that goes nowhere
Brings nothing.
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
She hears silence.
The footsteps ceased their echoing in the corridor long before this day,
Yet,
She stands there,
Transfixed,
Waiting for an answer
As if her invisible mute god will speak to her and
provide her with some illumination about her situation.
Instead
She soothes herself with intoxication.
Somewhere in the bottom of a bottle
Lies the answer.
So,
She drinks.
Takes a swig.
Downs the damaged nectar of overripe fruit
And,
Lets it burn her throat.
She sings
Mumbled mixed up words gurgle from her throat.
Anything is possible.
Anything can be achieved.
People fulfill their complicated dreams.
But,
What about her simple,
Long forgotten wishes?
She gulps the liquid
And
Forces them to be buried
Further down
Where she can no longer recognize them.
Even their skeletons have altered shape.
Why?
She hears it echoing from the walls around her.
It bounces off concrete.
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poem by Rabia Minhas
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