Away

And you are like that one thing
that’s just out of reach by
a hand that can only go as far as
a Facebook wall,
a box of badges,
a good picture on a memory stick.
Each day is a day away
from when you were here
and when you are not.

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saaleha

I am a writer and photographer (look up my work on www.shootcake.com) based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have an MA in Creative Writing from the university currently known as Rhodes. My writing accolades include winning the 2014 Writivism Short Story Prize and the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize for my debut collection, Zikr.

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