Moniza Alvi

Two Poems

Not The Thousand And One Nights

 
Not the thousand and one nights
but the thousand and one fears
 
each one as full
as a night.
 
Fear stuck to the travellers,
and the travellers stuck to each other.
 
A single entity, a country in embryo
hurtling down the road,
 
Its destination –
morning.
 
 
 

 

 

 

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