ABDUL RAHMAN REHMTULLA

" Is it possible to miss someone you've never met?

I certainly don't.

But his shadow looms over me.

'You have his cheeks.'

'You're just as funny as he was.'

'You smile like he did'

Empty words with no memories for context.

Is that the legacy he has left me?

A mirror for others to remember him by?

I don't miss him,

Though I long for him.

A tangible emptiness.

Amplified by her absence.

I am who I am,

Because I was raised by a shadow 22 years gone. "