
Flash-Cuts
By Anindya Arif

I do not know how to start this,
All I hope for is
Nobody else relates to these
Words I have written for you.
I am told it is easier
To think of you as
An impossible that goes on.
Last night,
You came in through my window,
And asked me to list all the things
I cannot save you from.
You left without a sound,
And a note that read
“I hope you don’t make a habit out of me”.
I tried looking for you,
In the mulberry store underneath
The run-down bridge
When all you did was let me ring on.
Flash cuts to years later.
A few lanes separated from the
House we never ended up living in.
I saw an asteroid break upon its passing
As your name oscillated through the
Undulations in the air.
Despite my distaste for the idea that memories bend,
it is easier for me to know
That he treats you the way you have always wanted.
And when I found you again,
on the weekend when the world ended.
As a form of a pyrrhic victory.
You spoke nothing concerning the world's end
or why you were always M.I.A but texted no different.
When I finally Mustered up the courage to ask you
if the world actually did end?
With your eyes drifting through the hazy light
You again said nothing of the world ending
You just clasped onto my face.
Being back on your arm again
All I could ask you was to
“aren’t you afraid of staying?”.
With dazzling limbs cutting
Through a pitch-black sky
Whether we are at the
World’s end or not: How can I think ahead?
When you are constantly on my mind.
