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Inversion
For in and out, above, about, below
"Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show
Play'd in a Box whose Candle in the Sun
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go
(Omar khayyam)
Everything constantly changes as an inverted world surrounds my inner and outer selves. Although in a familiar place, sometimes I feel lost.
Despite my desire for freedom I'm reduced to a bundle of borders. Entangled in the turmoil within, and despite the grandness I feel, I am just like a fraction on top of a distant ridge.
Feeling a small pebble excites me more than the discovery of a new galaxy.
Sometimes I am baffled in the midst of my world, a world that is a minute part of this gigantic existence.
Nevertheless, a human, I wish to own the infinite blue of the sky and the traversable domain of the earth.
Zahra Shafi
April 2017 |
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