Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 8, No. 4: CLRI November 2021
Umera Fatima Riyaz
Perplexed Souls
Perplexed universes,
We stand apart,
Grey and whimper.
Do souls talk?
After they have departed,
Those celestial lovers;
Stringing across space.
Floating from galaxy to galaxy.
Do they live again?
Begin again,
Their love blossoms
As a shooting star
Across the sky.
And their love grows
As red as mars do.
And it glows
As bright as the sun.
They spend millenniums together,
Morning and night.
Watching over us,
Breaking our hearts over pity souls!
And feeling horrid;
With love today
They swirl back
Into each other's arms.
Umera Riyaz is a 22-year-old writer, poet, short story writer, and feature writer from Hyderabad, India. She has graduated with a Bachelors in Arts with Psychology as her major alongside Journalism and Literature. Her poems have been published in a book compiled by Himanshu Goel, In Real Life, and Delhi Poetry Slam’s blog. She has published articles with Tulip Magazine and Siasat Daily. She has also been featured on India Times for a mental health video article and on HERstory Times’ Instagram handle for her poems on mental health.