Of Betrayal

By Muzaffar Ahmad Nengroo

May you bloom like the Almond Blossoms!

May you bloom in Hundred April Blooms!

Your betrayal is harsh like winter of the dale;

Your memories are daisies of my barren vale.

Your sheer dream reflection infuses;

New tumults in the forgotten bruises.

I have no complaints, not anymore;

Your desertion was one cruel sore.

That put my somber heart,

Into an inclement uproar;

Yield nothing but eternal furor.

My passions and dreams succumbed,

To the reasons banal and obscure;

Sundry wiles dissolve the endemic love for sure.

Fatuous desires blighted the fecund fervor;

Abated that young and old love bordure.

Your ‘Coming’ in my dreams is scarce.

Painful enough, not meant to adore,

The bygone passion that rusted afore;

Yet are the sweet recalls in galore.

Their nostalgia will live on for evermore.

Yet turns more often into a farce.

Your visits to my heart vested visions

Is common, infest nothing but fretful fissions.

Note: This poem is composed in the context of betrayal by the beloved to her lover. So the lover in his anguish says to his beloved.

By Muzaffar Ahmad Nengroo