a moment in the cosmos
Wafa
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scroll through the stars
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There are people the universe places
on the wrong side of distance,
close enough to feel,
too far to hold.
And still — the stars know no borders.
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There are eyes that carry whole universes,
constellations mapped in irises,
the kind that hold you still
long after you've looked away.
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She was different from the very first moment,
though no one could say exactly how.
Some things refuse to be explained —
they simply settle in the chest
and stay.
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I'm not saying the stars rearranged themselves.
I'm not saying anything, really.
Only that some things are hard to unnotice.
and so —
Whatever universe arranged
for you to exist in it
exactly like this —
it did well.
Zubair
from somewhere far, but certain