The World As We Know It by Shiraz Vapiwala

The World As We Know It

By Shiraz Vapiwala

Not the world And nothing like it Familiarity clouds the periphery Like an abandoned supermarket The shelves are stocked, the goods are gone. How it must have been in life The air was light All was all right It had to be It was all it could be.

Not the world we knew And not the world we know now We sift through mists of perceptions But we never breach the void.

Our motions, our seasons Our memory’s theatre Our mirrors part Played more earnest than ever. I wouldn’t get the part.