The boxes I put myself in are getting smaller.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
As a child of seven summers,<\/p>\n
when my bare feet knew the grasses well,<\/p>\n
I was Odysseus at Troy,<\/p>\n
carving a way through the enemy rhododendrons.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I spoke at the midnight hour on August fifteen,<\/p>\n
I was fifteen then,<\/p>\n
my voice rose high and clear,<\/p>\n
my dreams torched the sky.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I loved this girl from the next neighbourhood,<\/p>\n
pretty in peony pink hijab,<\/p>\n
the youth did not know when to back down,<\/p>\n
the youth did not know how not to love.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Now that the girl is gone,<\/p>\n
the dreams have withered away;<\/p>\n
and the child gave way a long ago<\/p>\n
to the husk of a man that I have become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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