fitrah: a vestige
keeping the peace in collective tension,
longing for everyone’s safety to be accounted for,
sinking…
sinking…
sinking…
at rest,
movement much larger than myself,
concentrated at myself,
the site of a force as mighty as tectonic plates,
shifting gently and amorphously at scale as the clouds do,
i am within or perhaps my limbs are the pins,
holding still while the rest spins.