Your soft arms are in my hands.
A boisterous breeze
stops
swirling—

time

possessed by  a
pause.

We are here to love &
                to be loved

Maung Htike Aung is a poet, literary translator, and educator from Mandalay, Myanmar. He holds an MA in English from Yadanabon University, and completed an online literary translation workshop at National Centre for Writing, UK. His poems and translations have appeared in local university magazines and Portside Review, Australia, and Wasafiri, UK.