One Minus One

Malaika Jawed

Class of 2025

It's about the people.

a short story

of love

of understanding

of loss

that lives beyond

the idea time

moving in a line

“I tell her I am here for a few months only,

and she smiles and says that I am welcome. 

I smile back.

I can still smile.”

because,

“If I called you now,”

or ever, it could be 

“half two in the morning;”

and I know, 

“you could easily be awake”