Rizwan Akhtar

Tree

Trees are like extinct languages
taking care of their lonely lives


wind spatters leaves curling verbosely
on ground holding archaic texts


words pile on tongue for sounds,
I make a mental munch of silence


your memory is cusped on barks
swinging like loose sentences


hinged on an esoteric grammar,
l stable on its spontaneous growth


you did not read my gestures
they are sprouting like poems


evening strips their shadows like themes
leaving me, wondering meanings