Genesis

things I did remain things only 

when words grew out abruptly 

language became the neighbor

we built a pool and a garden

a mower chipped in for wages

some winds also heaved us 

and the blood pumped inside 

rains multiplied curiosity  

sky added us we subtracted

silence there came a moment

souls took birth accidentally 

under skins we stored limbs 

made love the last shipment 

we received after imagination

I cannot say anything about time.

Rizwan Akhtar

Rizwan Akhtar’s debut collection of Poems Lahore, I Am Coming (2017) is published by Punjab University Press. He has published poems in well-established poetry magazines in the UK, the US, India, Canada, and New Zealand. He was a part of the workshop on poetry with Derek Walcott at the University of Essex in 2010.

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