MISCELLANEA

YOU ARE NIGH, I CAN’T TOUCH YOU: a ghazal

YOU ARE NIGH, I CAN’T TOUCH YOU: a ghazal
[Uncertain moves.]


You are nigh, I can’t touch you,
Unless you are willing too.

This veil of uncertainty,
I just cannot see it through.

A quaint desire in my heart,
Incessantly it does brew.

They haunt me all day and night;
How can your thoughts I eschew?

Khalish, when you walked away,
That day I shall ever rue.


*. Written in 7-7 format. Khalish, the nom-de –plume, is an Urdu word meaning pain or ache.
* For a note on ghazal, please see: "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" 


M C Gupta
20 July 2011