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Friday 18 June 2021

Where am I? - Parveen Shakir

Where am I
in your life?

                           In the morning breeze
                           or the evening star,
                           hesitant drizzle
                           or sharp rain,
                           silver moonlight
                           or hot noon,
                           deep thoughts
                           or casual tunes?

Where am I
in your life?

                           Down from work,
                           a weekend's interval
                           on a beach,
                           or an unintended
                           silken release between your fingers
                           from serial smoke?
                           Or a readily replenished,
                           freshened moment without wine,
                           or a moment's leave, anonymous,
                           between the breaking of one dream
                           of love and another's beginning?

Where am I
in your life?

Parveen Shakir (1952 - 1994) Pakistan
Translated by Alamgir Hashmi

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