Here’s a dark poem about love, loss and fear by Naheed – exclusively  
for Different Truths. 

Seems, an absolute
Tug of war is embracing defeat;
Weight of the desire
To marry vacuum, ascending 
Each while like an animal wild
Targeting the life hidden 
Within a hare white, sitting in
The bosom of greens

Alas! How vehement hegemony,
Of the gone, leads 
The sail of existence;
Befalling the Psyche numb
As doing everything still stills in something

Picture design Anumita Roy, Different Truths

Naheed Akhtar

Naheed Akhtar is a lecturer, writer and poet based in the city of Hyderabad. She is a bibliophile and loves reading Philosophy, History, Psychology, Literature, and its glossary. She loves nature. With her fine imagination of being a wanderer, a lost, who longs and lingers for the unseen and remote for her own reasons. She has three poetry collections: ‘Phantasms of My Heart’, ‘The Earth's Love’ and ‘The Morphine’.

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