A Stranger Am I

From all I stand apart; ask not the why ?;

The heart itself has chosen this release.

Shall some breast house my grief; it wanders by,

A reed cut loose, compelled to sing its peace.

My heart was clean, and once I held it whole;

Too much I trusted what so soon shall ring,

Heart's a bird that seeks where joys console,

Then leaves the branch as sorrow starts to sing.

A stranger am I, in this vast domain,

A city spun from dust and borrowed breath.

I walked wide-open; who was there to chain

This door, that let the winds rehearse my death?

If once I vowed, forgive me when I’m gone;

Send not my mail to earth, but where souls dawn.

--Affaq N Affaq 

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