Author: Maliha Iqbal

The Lost Identity

I don’t know / What sorrow could have / Made their heart so heavy / That the light was sucked / Out of their eyes

'The princess is going to look her saviour in the eye / And tell him that she does not need saving.'

'She does not care for balloons or toys / Life has taught her differently.'

'Don’t you realise that one person’s dream can be another person’s living nightmare?'

'You told me my value was measured by my marks / But I don't think this is how it works'

'I am the athlete / running in a race / in which I didn’t participate.'

'For it had come with the message, that an endless sky existed beyond the ceiling of the exam hall.'

'I stare at the clock that glowers at me, like a demon crouching on the wall.'

I read the banner, "You can be the next one!", it says, and I know I can’t.

A poem on the fallout of a neighbourly quarrel.

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