I Dreamt Tomorrow, Yesterday
Zoha Sh
Zoha Sh (she/her) is a queer South Asian Muslim poet and writer. Her work explores the relationships between time, love, and God and has been published in the Liminal Review, Fahmidan Journal, B’K’s All My Relations, Poetically Magazine, and elsewhere. You can find more of her work at zohashpoetry.com.
All my dreams are set In the backyard that dances Maybe this is what love could
in my childhood home with me in the rain become
A decade removed but My first heartbreak unravels Every version of me existing all
it shadows me still me again at once
People I won’t know At the kitchen table that All future selves treasured within
for years gathered amongst teaches me to write their past
The same bricks and stone I hear a friend's voice Held by the walls
that built me for the last time that watched them grow
Past and future holders On the bathroom floor that Already revelling in all
of my soul are overlapping keeps my tears a secret the ways they'll ache
Ghosts of time interwoven I re-meet the one destined And yearn and fall
on my old bedspread to command my heart and become