Underwater Dreams
Five steps from the shore,
I dive and enter another world.
A world defined by silence and riotous color
On Sudan
My land, my home, my African heart
You gave me language, character.
You straddled two worlds like a giant.
To My Younger Self
One day you will think,
“I am a fuse in the centre of an armed camp.”
One day you will feel like the panther in Rilke’s poem,
First Love
You walked into my garden much later in life.
I didn’t expect that.
After we’ve lived way past all our illusions
Road to Self
Someday, a man will marry you,
Not because he loves you,
The Lie
The only weapon I have,
The only revolution at my disposal
To A Palestinian Child
One day, I will watch you playing in the olive groves
And under the lemon trees.
Remembering
This is a companion piece to my poem “First Love”. It is an ode to the potency of memory, no matter how brief a relationship is. As Neruda famously wrote: “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
Forward
Original short poem about mother and daughter and moving forward
To Noureen
Noureen, Born with the sun inside your skin