Stay
Before you came
I knew my world
Things were in place
The sky steady to the end of sight
The street its familiar self
The glass of wine just a glass of wine
And now
They circle and cavort
Blur so fast
I cannot tell
What is which
And which is what
Stay
If you may
So that again
Time and space
Slip back in place
The sky steady to the end of sight
The street its familiar self
The glass of wine just a glass of wine
by Anjum Altaf
from More Transgressions
Poems inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
LG Publishers, Delhi, 2021
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