{"id":6270,"date":"2025-12-01T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:34:38","slug":"mailay-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangsamororeview.com\/main\/mailay-ko\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailay Ko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Aleah Sulaiman Bantas<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nMoamina was the first girl I saw<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaa<\/span>softly arched brows,<br \/>\na look you catch<br \/>\nin those brief intervals of movement<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaa<\/span>when you look too long at someone,<br \/>\nand just stare,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaa<\/span>compelled,<br \/>\nthoughtless, as if<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaa<\/span>being carried away<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaaaaa<\/span>by the current of an alep river,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the kind where it hasn\u2019t been raining for days on end,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaa<\/span>and the water runs cool at your feet,<br \/>\nwatching pebbles settle in the shallows\u2014<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaaa<\/span>weathered, polished smooth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How you call a river twice:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaa<\/span>first in your tongue alep,<br \/>\nthen again river,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaa<\/span>to remind yourself<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">it must flow<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u2003aaaaa<\/span>\u2003somewhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her frown and smile<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaa<\/span>merge, soft creases forming<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaa<\/span>at the corners of her lips,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaaaa<\/span>forehead,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaassssssdd<\/span>&amp; cheeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I wanted to say<br \/>\nwas her eyes were the certain virtue of stillness\u2014<br \/>\nthe ease I could have held onto,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u2003like holding a tasbeeh<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2003\u2003to which I recite,<br \/>\nmouthing forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember her voice trailing off,<br \/>\nhalf-breath,<br \/>\nthe sound of sleep and distance<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaa<\/span>prayers dissolving,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaaaaaa<\/span>a steady cadence.<br \/>\nblending into the ripple of water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her kindness was the first<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">ddd<\/span>I understood,<br \/>\nnext to wanting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she was near,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaa<\/span>I forgot<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">aaaaaaa<\/span>what anger meant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleah Sulaiman Bantas Moamina was the first girl I saw aaaaaaaasoftly arched brows, a look you catch in those brief intervals of movement aaaaaaaawhen you look too long at someone, and just stare, aaaaaaacompelled, thoughtless, as if aaaaaaaabeing carried away &hellip; 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