I always believed
I’ll meet you some day
Like old friends
Or former lovers
Bumping into one another
In strange countries
At ordinary cafes
Where you were not supposed to go
Where you were not supposed to be
But somehow, someway
Our paths cross
And we meet for no apparent reason
Some call it fate
Some coincidence
But it happens
Like it rains on sunny days
I always believed in meeting you
Like a desert dweller thirsty for rain
Like someone awaiting sunshine on a rainy day
Like a shipwreck victim believing in fate to strike miracle
The same fate that struck him shipwrecked
And left him stranded on a lonely island
In a place which is nowhere
Nobody wants to be in a place called nowhere
I believe we will meet one of these days
With no apparent reason or cause
And all those years I have spent
Believing in the idea of meeting you
All those days and years
Wouldn’t leave a mark on you
You will look as beautiful
As the day we first met
In a place at a time
We were not supposed be
We were not supposed to meet
The day we met
You smiled with your eyes saying
You love this shipwrecked man
With no apparent reason
You strike me like a lighting bolt
On a clear sunny day
No one believed me
Even my jealous friends
That a miracle happened
That fate chose to rescue a shipwrecked man
Sparing it from all the miseries
Only unloved men are destined to suffer
But I believed in things
Only the shipwrecked the unloved believe
But I know somehow
Time will not be kind with me
Or in the matter of fact with you
When we meet
At a place
On a day
We were not supposed to be
You will be old and I older
On a rainy day under unkind dark skies
Seeing each other
Surprised and not as believing as today
How come time can be so cruel?
How come time left mercilessly?
So many unaccountable marks
On that beautiful face
Which could ignite sunshine
On rainy days
How can those eyes be so gloom-stricken?
Which once struck a lightning bolt that shipwrecked me
On unfamiliar shores
Where I was stranded for eternity
In love with you
And here I am
Still believing in meeting you
With no apparent reason
In a strange country
Where it rains on sunny days
And strangers bump into one another
Where shipwrecked are loved
With no apparent reason
Sameer Mehrab is a writer and co-founder of Balochistan Times. He often depicts Balochistan's socio-political dilemmas in his fiction and poetry. He is based in Canada.
