Sanober Khan

“because some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold,but just beautiful to listen to.”

“give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.”

“Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.”

“Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.”

“there have been morningsso quiet and tenderlike a poem, on Thursday's lipsthat I wonderedif I'd been kissed at all...”

“your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.”

“wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.”

“let my heart always belike it is...this very momentready to explode...with lovea violent rainstorm...with no streamno ocean vast enoughto flow into.”

“I breathe in...the silenceof my own heartaching with tendernesswith memories..Of home.”

“i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.”

“May the nights always be aglowwith the bliss of the daywith unharmed hands and feetand kissed cheeks.”

“How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

“Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave youfeelinghomelessor brimmingwith home.”

“Look, moonI turned silver for you.”

“What you are trying to let go of...is already gone.”

“Hands. Cheeks. Eyes. Lips.Neck. Ears.Thighs.Heart. Soul.Ahh!the things I get tosavor you with.”

“fierce lovers.and battle warriorsboth comefrom the same place. there is bound to be,some bloodshed.”

“it was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too,have been bruised...by beauty.”

“Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness's song.”

“you make autumn misttaste like champagne and turn winter raininto the elixir of life itself.”