Once, I lost a friend
To disconnection,
We floated apart on different lands:
That’s how I knew nothing lasts forever.
Some days, I look back
And see us having tea at a cafe:
She’d talk about the days to come
While I held steady to the past tense.
Evidently, we were too different
But foreigners on foreign lands
Create an affinity of their own.
Sometimes, it’s a temporary one.
Raisa Anan Mustakin’s poems have been published in the Oxford University Poetry Society Magazine, UNICEF Voices of Youth, Ekstasis Magazine, Poetry Potion and Down in the Dirt Magazine. Her poems dwell in deep introspection, wondering what it means to be a human being.