When Sunday comesYou bring out a box filled With Berita Harian newspaper you’ve kept for monthsso that you make some money with the karang guni manhopefully When Sunday cameI brought out a box ofBerita Harian, The Straits Times, TODAY, and other flimsy clippings and faded articlesof my existence that my mother keptall sealed in a box, and IContinue reading “Boxes”
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The Mountain
I looked for you on the mountain today,I thought I’ll find you there.The sun rises but it doesn’t fill the void, sometimes I close my eyes and feel your handin mine. And once again, I went back in timeto the time when we were at the peak of what we loved to domanipulating the momentsfeeling the breezestaringContinue reading “The Mountain”
When You Are In Grief
When you are in griefI will not have answers for youNo surprises are in storeNo bowl of cut fruitsNo comforting words. When you come home in the middle of the nightEyes without a shineTears streaming down soundlesslyThe kitchen light will remain on for youA plate of your favourite frittersPreheat in the ovenA cup of chamomileContinue reading “When You Are In Grief”
When death smiles at you
Do you resuscitate a leaf turning yellow? Do you attach it back piece it back, take it to triage? Do you bandage it two rounds left, one round right? Do you opt for a transplant? A transfusion is in order for a photosynthesization to happen for life to happen once more one more season, oneContinue reading “When death smiles at you”
Destiny
I am destined for the Hellfire. I am destined to die, to be punished for my sins. There is no salvation for me no saviour that will save me. The only good that I will leave behind is my absence that will be filled and shared by the existence of another stranger whom I doContinue reading “Destiny”
Al Hafiz Sanusi 