Kamilah Aisha Moon
Irony

It would be now when you feel

want is no longer your enemy,

that your body & soul would kneel.

O it would be now, when you feel

you’ve culled joy, seized a new zeal

that Death grabs you, fingers icy.

It would be now, when you feel!

“Want” is no longer your enemy.

 

Found In Volume 49, No. 02
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About the Author

Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of Starshine & Clay (2017) and She Has a Name (2013), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.