Meanwhile
The night offered no resistance.
Heads rested in alignment.
Morning arrived unchanged.
Nothing signaled urgency.
No sound crossed the room
to wake anyone.
We knew—
not abruptly,
not painfully—
enough
to locate ourselves
inside the pattern,
to see
how easily
it accommodated us.
Sleep did not excuse.
It proceeded.
The plan was operative.
And so were we.
Lubna Al Balushi
Lubna Al Balushi is a multilingual Omani poet writing in Arabic, German, English, and Balochi. Her work explores memory, witnessing, and the structures that shape human experience through a restrained and reflective lens. Her upcoming poetry collection, Once Upon a Heart, marks the next chapter in her poetic journey.
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