What fun is to die a Painless Death!

(After she signed a treaty with fate)

Headsman was proud

The injury fatal

Your sentence

fate whispered unhurriedly

‘complete seperation

Of head from body’

Capital punishment

For loving me

The scene was set

They walked you

To the executioners block

From far away

I looked and found

Solitude in you

‘let the sword be blunt

And the executioner clumsy’

Your last wish they read

and the air was filled

with the smell of death

               

   -Laila

She cried to sleep

I came consoling her

In her dream that night

She moved her lips

Those beautiful lips

Why the sword so blunt?

And executioner clumsy?

I looked at her

My stare comforted her

I wanted multiple strokes

While they severed my head

I wanted a prolonged death

A more painful one

For what fun is to die

For you - if it were painless.

               

  -Majnun