Noor.
Meaning Light.
Radiance. Glow.
But Noor does not know
She is all that.
Instead, when the morning sun peeps in through her window,
She pulls the covers above her head
And wishes the light would go away -
Not remind her that another day
Is here.
On rainy afternoons,
Noor sits by her window,
And watches the sky darken
Wonders who reminds it afterwards
To clear out the clouds.
Who reminds it
That the dark is not here to stay
It will go away.
Sometimes,
[Just sometimes, mind you]
Noor wishes someone did that for her too.
When she is sitting amidst friends,
Noor likes to float away
And wonder how many of them will stay
Till the end.
And the ones who leave?
Why will they go?
Would it be because of her?
Or simply because sometimes it is impossible to know
Why the world pulls us apart.
Noor wonders the same about him too
How he will leave
If he will tiptoe his way out
His footsteps vanishing from the floor.
Noor thinks she will leave the door ajar
After he has left.
Just for a bit.
Just in case.
It is to let in the light, she will say.
Until the day
She's finally ready to close it all the way.
Noor - meaning light.
Radiance. Glow.
But Noor?
She doesn't know all that.
Instead
She knows that sometimes in the light
of the morning,
All she seeks is the comfort of the night.
She knows that after the sky cries its heart out
It remembers to tuck away the clouds.
[Just like she does, in the backpack she carries around.]
Noor knows that people go
That people stay
Either way
All you can do is leave your door ajar,
Tell the world it is to let in the light -
Radiance. Glow.
Noor.
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