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Uninvited guest
Your presence is felt again
My uninvited guest
Who provoke unprovoked
In me furores of mystical sensations
And leave me spent
On your gradual departure
Etching indelible vestiges
On my plains of personality
O, You harbinger of hazy vistas
Your presence acknowledged
Your message patiently awaited
In the delivery of future destiny.
Suleiman Zailani · 1993
EDITOR’S NOTE
Originally published in Citizen on 8 February 1993, p. 36. This diplomatic transcription preserves the wording and lineation verified against the archived page.