Another World
Sifar — Nothingness | صِفَر |
there’s another world
between us and this passing
yellow meets orange
painting colours of new dawn
us, looking at each other
another day melts
into an unspoken night
where does this begin
how long does forever last
from dust to dust in sifar
This piece contains two tanka poems. Tanka is a five-line, 31-syllable poem that has historically been the basic form of Japanese poetry. Tanka consist of five units (often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with 5–7–5–7–7 syllable structure.
Sifar comes from the Arabic word ‘Sifr’ صِفَر and the English word Cipher is derived from it. It literally means Zero, Nothing or a Void.
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