Saba Zahoor
With a pinch of salt
King Mithridates VI took small doses of poison, with a pinch of salt, to temper his fear of death. But it is the devouring appetite of days that I fear: I would never admit it whole, only in doses small enough to stomach. Life is easier to swallow when broken into smaller betrayals. I steep joy long enough to diffuse its glare, let sorrow sit in drawers with moth-eaten shawls.