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The Twilight Zone
By
Saaleha Bhamjee
The
beginnings were strange
The end stranger still
What started with an
email
Became a lasting connection
Words tangled, melded, met
Two worlds apart, but so alike, yet
Barriers melted in the heat of response
Age, race, religion, the lines ebb
Kindred spirits – so passé
But I suffered it – if only for a while
Ethereal, un-nameable, strangely surreal
A twilight zone - of anticipation
I
move on now, into the deafening silence
Of children at play, drudgery, normalcy
Words beckon me to the twilight zone anew
Enticing, inviting, just beyond reach
Feel me, she says, as I drunkenly swirl
In the darkened recesses of your secret mind
Turn me over and over again, then pour me out
A piece of your soul, between your fingers –
I trickle
Fading away in the thieving wind
Of memory spent…. |
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