SAJID HUSSAIN

 

 

Elegy Of A Withering Essence

 

Existence transcribes itself in dialects of sorrow,

I dwell beneath time’s eroded, ancient strata,

One wave ascends then perishes in stillness,

All forms dissolve in dusk’s oblique design.

 

This path regresses to familiar desolations again,

The self-succumbs to structured helpless repetition,

I could not hinder despair’s advancing tide,

Each surge negates volition’s silent discourse.

 

Temporal haze occludes the astral canopy,

Imagination fades, no archetype endures whole,

Life stages its scenes in fractured symmetry,

With devoid of telos, method, or interior logic.

 

No pulse conveys warmth through reasoned breath,

No ember remains in the hearth of mind,

Each dawn tolls a dirge of mute decline,

Where intellect dissolves and passion recedes.

 

Former sparks of sentience have extinguished,

Only vestiges persist in thought’s pale ruins,

A consciousness once pulsed with sacred longing,

Now stilled beneath abstraction’s cooling veil.

 

No cadence traverses the aether’s silent field,

No chroma blooms through the spectral void,

Who walks aligned with time’s entropic axis?

Even youth now wears the veil of mist.

 

That fervor once sanctified in inward ache,

Lies dormant, shorn of vision or intent,

O life, release me from this void,

Where sorrow reigns and being withers.

 

Some sentient heart must still remain,

Attuned to grief's epistemic resonance.

Mind endures in the ruins of cognition,

Its ache inscribed in conceptual ash.

Sajid Hussain from Pakistan ©

 

 

The Mirror Of Resonance

 

Bound by the fetters of recollection,

A thought is sundered from thy presence,

Affliction dawns not as anguish,

But as a subtle with ineffable wound,

It reverberates with echoes too expansive for containment,

A solitary image coursing through the river of remembrance,

Imposes its resonance with prime majesty,

No silence lingers but bears thy theme,

No breath escapes devoid of thee,

To exile the bond from thought is to exile breath,

The corridors of the past are creeping blinks,

Each is an awakened shadow long concealed,

Sorrow’s fading seam reopens time’s disguise,

Drifts endlessly tides of long-lost sigh,

Time unfolds itself in the mirror of resonance,

The cracks of broken moments bleeds across the soul.

Sajid Hussain, Pakistan ©

 

SAJID HUSSAIN

 

Dr. SAJID HUSSAIN (b. Feb 1, 1969, Morgah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan) is an award-winning poet, educator, and literary advocate whose work champions humanity, nature, peace, and cultural exchange. A senior Chemistry teacher, Master Trainer in “Low Cost and No Cost Science Material,” homeopathic doctor, and former principal, he has authored acclaimed poetry collections including Acquits of Life, Parlance, Cloud Nine Fantasia, Oceanic Upwelling, Waves and Rays of the Life, Insight Beyond the Mists, Life’s Chaos on Edge, and Shades of Pathos. He has co-authored and contributed to numerous international anthologies, such as Flowers of Love, Poets for Peace, Poetry for Ukraine, and The Silk Road Literature and compiled Pakistani English Poets Prodigy (USA). With over 1600 poems published in 500+ anthologies, magazines, blogs, websites worldwide and translated into multiple languages, Dr. Hussain’s work is celebrated for its empathy, eloquence, and global resonance. Recipient of honours including the Shahitya Pata Award and Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Literary Honours and so many, he continues to inspire dialogue, social justice, peace and cross-cultural understanding through literature.