05 اپریل 2025

glopowrimo day 5

The Joy is Gone
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I was tapping my left foot to match the dubstep mix on the radio,
And their first responders were waltzing around unconscious kids to save what was left
When my cat was dozing off wrapped in blissful wool,
They were running, all at once, through the shattered glass and stone
With a hint of frenzy 

30 مارچ 2025

28 مارچ 2025

random

On Missing

I pick a handful of clouds 
Standing at the top of the cliff 
Mother calls from behind, the usual “be careful” 

26 فروری 2025

happiness floats

- happiness floats.
It doesn’t need you to hold it down.
It doesn’t need anything.
Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,
and disappears when it wants to.
You are happy either way.
Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house
and now live over a quarry of noise and dust
cannot make you unhappy.
Everything has a life of its own,
it too could wake up filled with possibilities
of coffee cake and ripe peaches,
and love even the floor which needs to be swept,
the soiled linens and scratched records . . .

.. and it flows out of you into everything you touch. 
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So Much Happiness
by Naomi Shihab Nye