I wish I could share your burden
But the sky weighs too much
And it stays on your shoulders;
Tall and grey.
It is impossible to say
What it’d feel like
To live
With the moment
When your child’s eyes
Lost their light
Flashing before you
Every moment
And then the next
And the next
And the next.
– Saadia
I hope you are where daffodil fields are
Where the sky is cerulean
And azure
And the clouds drift with ease
Where rivers flow
Without carrying the blood
Of the children of the land.
I hope you are where
Eternal spring reigns
Where green mountains
Cushion your steps
And hold you lightly.
– Saadia
Your hair curves around itself
Like tresses of silk overlap
And like water
Ever flowing and unebbing
Like folds of velvet
Soft but firm
And dark… like the night sky
But flecked with lighter hues
Almost as if
Beams of light
Tear at the sky
With lethal claws of morning.
– Saadia
