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Medina Tenour Whiteman's avatar

In love with this poem…it has such a clear yet delicate wistfulness…ahhhh! Why is there not a huge major poetry subset of Substack? Maybe there is and we just need to find them!

Nuzhatara Begum's avatar

I can't help but read this as a dialogue with Surah al-Asr – your stanzas being a response to verses 2 and 3.

There is so much enormity in swearing "by time"; it always stuns me.

Thank you for sharing this!

Elest Ali's avatar

Thank you. I like that - a dialogue with the Surah.

Hana Siddiqi's avatar

Mashallah