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Mercy

Sun-ribbed days, grey strips shuffling through kindness, dissolve into night's darkness.

December 15, 2022

Like a ribbed Sun
My days are grey strips
Shuffling through swaths
Of your glowing kindness
And then…

they dissolve

Into the dark of the night.

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PART OF A COLLECTION

Mercy and 5 other poems

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Danish Hussain

Danish Husain is an actor, storyteller, poet, and a theatre director. He was instrumental in reviving the lost art form of Urdu storytelling, Dastangoi, which he later extended into a multilingual storytelling platform called Qissebaazi. He lives in Mumbai and runs his theatre company The Hoshruba Repertory.

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