Her Last Sigh

R
Rehnuma Siddique

He had walked miles with a trembling heart 
Navigating in a sea of snow
Trailing along like the fluttering moist breath 
Under her stubborn nostrils that beaked like a vapid crow.

They had crossed the peaks together
That spread like dried stars everywhere
Engraving a coquettish maze 
Under the ebony black sky.
 
Something invisible kept incinerating 
With blind odor;
Like the strange tide of a summer breeze, 
The stars winched along the darkness
Inch by inch with iridescent lights 
Into the cracks of her nomadic body.

While she paved the air away 
With her last sigh.