Sophia Jamali Soufi: Wandering
Illustration: Ana Stjelja / AI-assisted Before being seen in a shattered mirror we lay scattered a faceless face a shadow with no owner The dream did not know whose dream it was … Each time we looked at ourselves an image of us remained trapped in the glass Perhaps, to see is the very act of losing oneself the moment when light reaches the eye and a part of us forever remains in darkness … Light … Ah, you stranger by nature! Fearlessly you arrange little lie inside the mirror and lead the nakedness of the wound to a feast for the eyes of strangers Do you know? We have lived suspended between things neither in the crystallization of light do we turn to ash nor in absolute blackness are we forgotten Light a blade that reveals Darkness an embrace that conceals I still do not know whether it is I who am falling out of the mirror or whether the mirror is crumbling away from me … Sophia Jamali Soufi (born in 2001 in Rasht, Iran) is an...
