Fazal Abubakkar Esaf

A Conversation Between Two Versions of Tomorrow is a sequence of poetic fragments exploring alternate realities hidden inside ordinary perception. Each piece treats abstract emotion as a living system-rooms that respond to lies, rivers that remember conversation, cities that react to thought. Rather than following a single narrative, the work moves like a shifting mirror. Every image reflects another possibility, suggesting that reality is not fixed, but responsive.
At its core, this collection asks a simple question:What happens to time when it starts noticing us back?This collection began as fragments-small, strange thoughts that felt like they had drifted in from somewhere else. Each line carries the weight of something familiar yet unreal, as if memory and imagination were speaking at the same time. These pieces are not meant to explain the world, but to gently distort it until it reveals another possibility.
A door that opens only when you stop knocking, a map that refuses to stay still, a silence that sits at the table-each image is a question disguised as a place. If there is a conversation here, it is not only between two versions of tomorrow, but between certainty and doubt, arrival and departure, presence and absence.