October 15, 2023 - Rahil Najafabadi’s “Sentimental”

No breeze is a whisper between the trees,
the silence between the footsteps of us following

worse mistakes. Like the repetition of a pointless
battle, a bitter heartbreak that has kept my thought

of days becoming eager for tomorrow brittle. The
candle of each lover burns more of my own brightness,

I can’t see if I’m not seeing with another person.

Again, there’s another kiss of winter that’s sealing me,

I have nowhere to go but to feel something that’ll
take away the coldness even in the presence of the sun.