Alshaad Kara’s two poems


But Love Met With Pain


True love is the weapon that kills you first, 

Nurtures you to the heaven,

And shades your tears to shape your destiny,

All without saying a word. 


Unconditionally yours is a fine line

Between obsession and observation;

The only resume that fits is the desire

To conquer the squashed hopes. 


Never again shall someone be the same,

After being kindred by the flames

That flakes sunshine over blisters

Without a breeze, without a sound. 


Love is an intrigue that is intrinsic,

Leaving without a trace,

But keeps echoing in the heart

Until the soul returns to thy ends.

Beyond the fence


The wind blows notes of musicals

With petals joining this melody. 


The separation is a destruction 

That destiny desires in its own. 


Pain doesn't drown, it submerges 

In a freezing paragraph. 


If paradise can glide in thoughts,

Then where death stands. 


The cliffs we stand today

Are not cliffhangers 


But lights that strike 

An imbalance of consequences.
 


Alshaad Kara is a Mauritian poet who writes from his heart. He won first place for the Boney Cultural Center Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition 2024 and was also a winner of the Flapper Press Poetry Café Valentine’s 2024 Juliet Poetry Contest. His latest poems were published in “Stygian Lepus”, “Poetry for Mental Health”, “The erozine”, “100subtexts magazine” and “Missives”. He made his Flash Fiction debut in Stygian Lepus Edition 14. 

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