[Poem #6 - "don't you wish?"]
وَأَنَّهُ هُوَ أَضْحَكَ وَأَبْكَىٰ
"that it is He who brings laughter and tears"
— The Quran [53:43]
"that it is He who brings laughter and tears"
— The Quran [53:43]
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and so by the time I was eight
I was already
lost in translation
absorbing Hindi
praying in Arabic
watching words appear like eye-floaters
'A's and alefs dancing in my thoughts
'A's and alefs dancing in my thoughts
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