Thursday, June 12, 2025

The echoes of muted screams

I'm the butchered cow, once fell, all alone, and the butchers roaming around, each one wanting a piece of his own.

I'm the orphan who dreamed excessively about Home, it started to project it on the faces of her predators. 

I choke on the thorn of the rose they offer me, totally oblivious to the purpose of any of it all, life, its roses, and the rose offering.

I am mother and child, and the deserting of both. The alienation, the abandonment, the sacrifice, the refuge, the longing, the containment, the attachment, and the detachment.

I am the neverending, always changing, mourning grief.

I am all the mornings, and some nightimes.

I am always escaping, avoiding, spacing out, self rejecting.

I am all the men that I have loved.

I am the residue of the residue of whatever breadcrumbs was ever thrown at me.

Men, women, children, all the same.

The pain is the pain is the pain is the pain.

Another day comes, 
Another day goes.

The cycles change, 

And I remain,

Griefbound.

On and on 

It goes. 

Until there is nothing left

but the echoes of muted screams.

Hush now baby,

Nobody's home. 

There is no home,

Just you,

And this incessant itching for a life that was only ever birthed once in your own psyche.

Hush and sleep now,

Or,

Just 

You 

Wake 

Up!

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Oblivion in the city of ghosts

In the devil's lair, the only hopeful thing to do is ditching hope itself.

You see him in the eyes of everyone, you sense him in the empty smiles, in the fake words, in the silence, even in the void. He did not leave anything or anyone out, and why would he, this is his home after all. 

The grieving is not over what was, or what got lost, or what could've been, it is accepting that all if this life and its intricacies, even its rarest blissful moments, is only a facade.

"The biggest trick the devil played" indeed...

When you think you managed to unclench its grab on you, you find yourself in another trap. On and on it goes. There is food, and there is drink, and there are substances, pleasures, temptations, fake hope, numbing illusions, and all sorts of distractions. 

I see his face with that smirk, I hear his giggles, and that very loud and the most evil laugh...

Fuck you anyway, you lousy pathetic lowley parasitical fraud!

Try as you might,

You do not fool me! 

Cheers to another round of battles, 

This is personal now.



Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Monkey business

I asked God the other day: can I please, please, please embrace them so very tight with my body and close to my chest, so I can squeeze the demons out of them! 

God replied: you'll drown again, don't you ever learn?

I plead: I wish to try again, you and yours will pull me out on time if it happens again. Please! 

God went quiet. 

Ara whispered in my head: "tayseh, banana brain!"

I laughed and cried. 

Amen.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Wake me when it's over

The sky is crying with me, slowly, gently, quietly. 
It shouldn't have rained, it wasn't expected to. 
My washing is hanging out to dry, now soaking wet.
I shouldn't have cried either, I had already grieved and mourned, for several lifetimes over.

I don't have a sleeping pattern anymore, I am often finding myself having dozed off in the middle of a contemplation session in bed in the middle of the day, or after an excessive weeping session in the morning, or on an early evening crash. 

Everything is overwhelming; the reality, my thoughts of it, my reality, the past, the present, the future...

It feels as though I roam without a skin these days. The new level of sensitivity is making me feel extremely fragile and vulnerable. Everything on the outside is being sensed right through the inside of my body, no skin shielding.

I don't crave the human embrace like my usual anymore, I now crave it like my life depends on it, as though it's the very skin that would lessen the effect of this existence on me. 

The ground is still shifting, the tremors don't stop, but only crazy people like me notice it, feel it, or care to talk about it. 

The sky keeps on being messed with too, very badly so. I could hardly make out what is being done to the air anymore, but my incessant crashing of late is very telling for sure. 

I keep downloading dating apps and deleting them. I have reached a new level of despair, nobody's home, but while I'm here, and that crazy heart of mine still bursting with life, I got to venture. Who's there to love, who indeed!?!


Something happened to the timelines lately, I seem to be only bringing things from the past and making them much more relevant here and now, oddly. That tenacity of mine, I never tire, it sure surprises even me! 

I brought all the love and the vibrant memory of my loving heart to all those I loved in my childhood and growing up. All the men, the friends, the family members, the randoms, the strangers, the close ones, the lovers, the children. 

And now I cry and weep as I learn to detach and surrender the need to control the outcome of it all. "It is what it is".

I'm bleeding too. My womb is missing and craving and longing, it's crying with me, but at least I get the cycles. There will be time again soon for the embraces... 

I'm detoxing and suffering from very strong withdrawals. My strong will power can be scary sometimes. I don't know how I do it, but I do. Reset and reboot, time and again!

To feel so much, to devour so much, to contain so much, and then to go cold turkey, disconnect, detach. 

I was created like that, no point resisting anymore, it is written in the stars. I've actually been studying my birth chart recently , just wow! Says it all... 

I can't be bothered about cleaning lately, the place is in a mess, and I'm so annoyed about it. I also keep thinking that I don't wish to die suddenly while my floors are dirty or things need dusting, I genuinely need to go with the place nice and neat. But oh well, this is the reality for now, I suppose I ain't going anytime soon from the look of it! But one still hopes...

On another note, I'm finding solace in my constantly fresh, crispy clean cotton bed linen, I seem to be changing and cleaning those regularly without failing or tiring. At least I got that going on for me, through all the despair. The sensation and the smell seems to be doing the perfect thing to my body and mind, now more than ever before, perhaps they've become my missing skin for the time being.

For that at least, and at this moment, I'm grateful. 

Tomorrow,

That's another day...

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

In-Purity

I'm washing all the sheets and bed linen. I'm washing all the towels. I'm scrubbing and wiping. I'm washing myself, repeatedly. This place and I ought to be cleansed, a heavy visitor came and soiled this pure space, under the "pure" pretence. The devil is smart, but feeble and cowardly. Same old tricks, only new faces and different bodies. 

You crack me up! 

Better luck next time... 

Friday, April 11, 2025

S.O.S

I cursed the curse that cursed you, 
This morning,
Mother!
Oh how I hate this existence that birthed your narcissism, my stuck in a loop with it, and all of the narcissistic men that moved me!
I cursed the milk you fed me,
I am still unsure you ever nursed me,
But I sure looked for that kind of affection from all the men that held me.
This reality has been crumbling for a while now,
I just wish I find the exist button soon,
To release myself once and for all.
I keep spiraling in and out;
One end has hope of healing and breaking the toxic patterns,
The other end takes me deeper into the rabbit hole.
I keep expanding and shrinking, 
So does my heart and mind,
And this achy body,
Which keeps craving physical affection like an orphaned infant.
I keep longing for the men to mother me,
And I keep mothering all those who dare to love me.

What else is there after all that has been said and done,
But a never healed, always open, damned mother wound!!!

Curse this reality...
Curse this realm...

God have mercy,
Please!
SOS!!!

Saturday, April 5, 2025

The vortex

Hassan ghosted me last year
Raniya died earlier this year
Yasmina's still searching for her tribe
And Ali's soul is nowhere to be found from all the spirits attachments!

All I have predicted has happened
I'm sad and grieving and choking
The spirits did indeed win him over
I'm entangled and entrapped because I dared to love

I'm angry at God
I scream and shout 
In total silence 

Why did you bring Ali to me 
Why did you take him away
Why did you take them all away 
Why did you bring me here 

I'm naive and pathetic today 
I'm not going to pray 
Let me burn
Who said I can rescue me 
Who said I could rescue them 

Let it all burn 
And let us all drown 
Let it all be sucked up 
In this most evil and dark vortex 

If you hear this God 
SOS please 

Here we go again 
Hear us here 
We're calling Home 
I know I am 

Won't you please, 
Take me! 

Friday, April 4, 2025

The fire that heats burns too

The sun today was your heart 
And the warmth of your body
The sun was the fire in your grip 
And the light in your face when you smile

Today the sun was my lost companion 
For I have lost you, haven't I?
And perhaps I did before even the illusion 
of having you by my side, you firey thing!

I miss you but I miss me too 
I miss us, I even miss the cringe when we romanced
Except, it never really was that to me,
For you've fit in perfectly with my everything... 
Strangely so.

I only just wished there was a turning down to your anger 
I turned and twirled and whirled to no avail
You lit the damn fire on both us
I can't say I didn't see it coming.

Today the sun shone through but I kept the curtains closed
I didn't want there to be daytime,
Or life 

But now I bask in the faint warmth of the sunset
I plan on going to the park again soon 
Boy won't I miss you!
I pray to the trees from now to take good care of my heart when I do 

I pray for all of nature and all that is Godly to take care of your mind 
And for God to please save your soul 
I love you so, precious one!

Until we meet again, if we ever do...

في أمان الله يا أسمر


Monday, February 3, 2025

الطيبون للطيبات

أطهو وأصنع الحلويات
أعدّ حصة لك معي في كل ما أحضّر

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ما لهذه الصباحات والأمسيات تشبه أيام الصغر

ما لوجهك يؤنسني هكذا
وصوتك يدفئني
ولمسك يحييني

أنا العجوز التي اكتفت من أمور الحياة وقصصها
وانعزلت وبلسمت جراحها بخلوتها
واستغنت عن البشر والصحبة

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ما لصغيرتي الراشدة البالغة تحتضني
ما لها تطلب حضني كأنها طفلة من جديد

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ما لهذه الايام كأنها بدايات النهاية
او نهايات البداية
ما لكلماتي تتلعثم
ولمَ أكتب بالعربية

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أقرّ لك يا أسمر
انّك أعدتني طفلة
ومراهقة
وعروس صبية
وأمٌ مدلِّلة، مدلَّلة

أفرح بلقياك 
بل أنتشي من مجرد شوقي أليه
وأقضي ساعات الانتظار 
في حب كل ما يحرك فيّ وجودك
(ووجدانك وصدقك وعنفوانك)
وكل ما اعتقدت أن الحزن قد افقدني اياه

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وأشارككما طعامي ووقتي ومكاني
وتدمع عيناي
 ويأنس قلبي
ويطمئن جسدي
وأستكين

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هذه اللحظات
تشبه طعم الحب الاول
وأول أيام الزيجات
والأحلام الوردية 
والولادات الحديثة

والأمل

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شكرا
وسلام 

يا أسمر