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On Love

My being, like sand, pours into your form, emptying itself to utterly become you.

June 15, 2025

I have come to be

Sand

In an hourglass

You make up

The other half

Slowly

I melt into you

Pouring myself out

Emptied

At last

I become you.

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PART OF A COLLECTION

All is One Here and 2 other poems

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Abrona Aden

Abrona Lee Pandi Aden is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Sikkim University, India. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Muse India, Mekong Review, Sapiens Anthropology Magazine, The Bangalore Review, among others. She translates from Nepali to English. She is a recipient of the ICM Global South Translation Fellowship awarded by the Institute of Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, in 2022. She has been the Charles Wallace India Trust Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK during their Spring Term, 2024.

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