If you must stay

If you must stay
trace the curves of her art,
the breaths that rise & fall
under a pregnant moon
where poetry is birthed
bare from the womb of night

if you must stay
love her in secret
tiptoe behind paper screens
hold her in all the places her heart softly sighs
and speak to her of life.

Written by Dr Muna Abdi

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