Rational

By Safa Mahmood

in my pain i get so tied

i forget the resentment you bear

every day, as well, inside;

my misguided actions, unkind, unfair;

the hurt, the hollow, and how i am why

there is no more love in your eyes.

i cannot take us back to those years,

when we shared a new kind of hope.

and you say you cannot stay here,

so i prepare to fall as you cut the rope.

the hurt, the hollow, all because i am near,

so i love you from afar, and disappear.

By Safa Mahmood