Evening Meditation by Nibras Malik

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
 
Consciousness thickens like fog,
So dense and oppressive,
 
I close my eyes and meditate,
Utterly dead to the world,
 
Witness to pure silence,
Calm finality and oblivion,
 
The eternal and starless night,
Surpasses all understanding,
 
Unburdened of being and time,
I am relieved of my suffering.

Nibras Malik is a second year Politics & IR student at Cardiff University. Two of her poems have been published in the Acumen Poetry Journal. More recently, she has been long-listed for the Felix Dennis Young Poets Competition 2020 and published in an associated anthology. In her spare time, she enjoys bicycling, watching documentaries, reading and writing. Her long term goal is to publish a debut poetry collection.