Odes To The Moon

Issue 12

I wrote odes à la lune
In the dark of the night.
Then - I was not trying
In the smog-dimmed starlight,
To say: 'I love you'.
I was saying, simply,
And quite literally,
That I love the moon.
 
Now - I am just lying
Here, watching the moon kill
Clouds, wishing that were still
True -

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Hibah Shabkhez is a writer and photographer from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Penine Platform, Rust and Moth, Think Journal, The Font, The Raven's Muse Magazine, and a number of other literary magazines.

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