My love, we are not the first
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My love, we are not the first
To fall asleep together, hands
intertwined, waking up
with a line
drawn
between.
We are not a war,
just two people in love.
We are not the first
nor last to know
heartbreak
from headlines.
My love,
we are nothing
in this crossfire. Trees
& rubble, hollow
craters
on soil that is neither
mine nor yours.
~ Manahil Bandukwala
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Manahil Bandukwala is a Pakistani writer and artist. She is the author of two chapbooks, Paper Doll (Anstruther Press, 2019), and Pipe Rose (battleaxe press, 2018). She was the 2019 winner of Room magazine's Emerging Writer Award. See her work at manahils.com.
