Sidra Tul Muntaha
Sidra Tul Muntaha is a poet and physicist based in Lahore, Pakistan. She likes studying the universe and also creating new ones out of poems. Her hobbies include reading poems, collecting them in her notebook, and lending them to her friends whether they need one or not. Sidra is a poetry editor at Mollusk Literary Magazine and her work is forthcoming in The Ampersand Anthology (The Peepul Press, 2024).
I remember him in my forgetting
Of wallets and keys
And in my morning cup of tea
POETIC RENDITIONS – COLUMN 1
The poem uses the language of a physical sickness to describe an internal turmoil of identity. Our identities are an amalgamation of the culture, religion, and beliefs, of the people and communities we grew up in. But what happens when our authentic self stands in contradiction to all our learned beliefs?