“Love Letter” Poetry Excerpt From Abeer Hoque

I push and I pull

I watch and I wait

I tire of being the one who wants

I don’t have the courage

to speak up and take it

I don’t have the wisdom

to know it’s not mine

but I know this much

what’s over isn’t a failure

what’s perfect isn’t forever

I’m in love with the memory of us

And I don’t ever have to fall

out of that

This poetry video was shot and edited by Josh Steinbauer and has Abeer Hoque reading an excerpt from her book The Lovers and The Leavers, recently launched in India. Want more video poetry? Watch “I Have Stolen Everything” which was shared on the site around the time of the book’s Bangladesh launch.

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Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. “Love Letter” is an excerpt from her book of interleaved stories, poems, and photographs, The Lovers and the Leavers (HarperCollins India, 2015). She still doesn’t have the wisdom to know it’s not hers. Buy her book here: amzn.to/1DP75VM. And see more at olivewitch.com.

Josh Steinbauer is a filmmaker in NYC, which is a huge improvement from when he was a dishwasher in Minnesota. None of his coworkers at Red Lobster who caught him napping behind the dumpster would ever have guessed that he would go on to win the People’s Choice Award from the International Pancake Film Festival. The fall of 2015 will bring his first two feature films (“Paper Stars” & “Matter Out Of Place”). His poetry is forthcoming in Great Weather For MEDIA’s anthology “Before Passing”.