Tag: hope
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Destined
Born in the season of the earth, my legs were made for dirt. A sole and righteous son, I felt destiny’s weight from birth. The wagon wheel is pushed as sweat bleeds through my shirt. Such feelings that are brined, in these poems they are unearthed. And in this life of mine, like mighty Hercules…
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In the Abyss
In the abyss, beneath corral green. Like Sisyphus, but it rolls downstream. As fates connive and unwind their spools, Dreamers dance–they are dancing fools. Bowie sent Ziggy towards the Moon, As the pastor King marched to certain doom, When Marilyn kissed the chosen son, They told us then that the war was won. They say…
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A Decision Made
How often ruled by decisions made, The child born into a holy land. The blue star on his forehead laid, Says he’s no beast, but born a man. And the other girl, she’s already two. Beyond a wall where olives grew. Black and green and white the hue, Rebellion in her heart imbued. The boy…
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Bodyaches
My body aches with the crack of time, Upturned, upended–the bending of the days. I lay here in quiet supine The grim news of a world in wait. Folded and handled, Like linen too white. They rock them their slave ship, Oscillating from fake left to far right. The deafest ears They come with the…
Writings by Samson Mousa 