i promised myself i will not write about you

Bushra Iqbal

but here i am

breaking it in two

like the flesh of a fruit

gone terribly bad

the sand breaks softly

with every step i take

i like the progress

until they're swept away

the waves pull me in

the same way you loved

so ferociously gentle

with their want

no teeth no claws

all warmth all salt

i like it here

the place from where

no one can tell

the sky from the sea

where everything and nothing

coexist together

where i'm neither alive nor dead

neither sinking nor floating

neither breathing nor dead

neither in love nor out

i said i like it here

where it's neither in the beginning nor the ending

but right in the middle of the story

it's the closest i've come to peace

piece by piece you see

so leave me by the sea

for a while

let me be let me see

the world in this light

in only and only this moment

neither the past nor the future

let me live in the moment

let the waves pull me in

let me think that it's you

who's loving me

so ferociously gentle

with your want

no teeth no claws

all warmth all salt

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