Were You There?
( M Yusuf Abbasi)

Were you there?
Not even once
If not,
Who was it?
You or I,
On the shores of silence
Spread out in the night
And filling the eternal void
Of endless memories
As wave after wave
On the rocks
In a dumb quest.
Who was it?
Not even your image
Not a lingering smile
And no fragrance
Not even a remembrance.
Like the river banks
On either side we stand
And across the chasms
Of our being
Stretch out our hands
Straining our fingertips
In the mist
To touch the phantoms
Of our being.
Was it you?
No, Not I!
Then who called?

Published - December 23, 1992 - ©

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