ILA Magazine
Where Culture Meets Creativity
Poetry of Shazia Rashid
EMOTIONS... I pretend to be strong When inside I am hollow for long. I force to smile When it's hard even for a while. I am occupied with my own things Gloom hovering with wide spread wings. I feel day by day That I'm losing my heart straight away. It is now very hard to wait Hoping glad tidings will be in fate. WANDERING HEART Why does my heart wander? Where does it want to go? Sometimes feeling high sometimes feeling low Missing something And what, I even don't know God, please let me know Why does my heart wander? Where does it want to go? Unconvinced of the world's stage Where all souls live in a beautiful cage Breaking the cage soul wants to fly In the majestic vastness high and high Lost in the love of divines divinity The heart bows down only for His affinity. SCIENCE OF LOVE You are my dopamine I am your oxytocin Since love in our hearts was poured in You are my endorphin I am your serotonin You are more than a kith and kin You are my Sun I am your hydrogen gas You and me oh what a class! You are my air I am your oxygen We are bodies two and soul one You are my blood I am your hemoglobin Since in your life you took me in You are my heart I am your heart beat You and me make each other complete. © SHAZIA RASHID
Srinagar, Jammu/Kashmir, India