5/20/10

Assert the Truth
By Khurshid Alam


Should you come to meet me
And ask: how I am?
I’m fine. But to tell it
In answer is sweeter than sweet.

Should you come to greet me
And welcome: how sure I am?
I am full of confidence
But to assert it in answer.
Is to be more confident.

Should you but come to me
And propose: if I love you?
I do, should you but ask!
For, to accept is more
Beautiful than I do love you.

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For Shez


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I am a Technical Writer by profession, and write poetry, stories etc. My writings have been published widely in India and abroad. Currently, I run Contemporary Literary Review: India and am writing a chapbook and a novel.