Here and Nowhere

Sumera Saleem

February 20, 2022

Who has ever come to the edge?

Is it I, we, time or none?

Some say it is ‘I’ and ‘I’ is nothing.

Nothing will stay forever and perhaps for no reason.

Some say it is ‘we’ and ‘we’ is a product of dreams,

Always unfulfilled till ‘I’ becomes ‘we’.

Some say it is time which is already over and

What we see is a slow end rolling towards eternity.

What answers do I have other than these? None.

Or perhaps only this, some is the sum that takes us all in

In the hope of being together 

For whatever stays for us beyond the edge.

Sumera Saleem is a lecturer in the department of English language and literature, Sargodha University, Sargodha and gold medalist in English literature from the University of the Punjab for the session 2013-15. Her poems have appeared in Tejascovido, Langdon Review published by Tarleton State University, USA, Blue Minaret, Lit Sphere, Surrey Library UK, The Text Journal, The Ghazal Page, Pakistani Literature published by Pakistan Academy of Letters, Word Magazine. A few more are forthcoming in international and national anthologies.