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PIECE AFTER PIECEBy Yusra Al-Ayoubi |
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Nostalgic Poems Piece After Piece |
PIECE AFTER PIECEYou who deliver your body Piece by piece Your knife wounds, tears
And makes of fragments
Frontiers and flags..
You who cram and curve
In a snail calling it life
Moving there to form your limbs,
How little you are, how small are your dreams!
A man the size of a sperm
But not a sperm to be a man..
All eyes, all microscopes
Are tired to know your identity,
To infer wisdom out of your secrets..
The world of miniature is your passion
In secrets you find your protection,
In alien forts your defence..
You who form your tiny limbs
In the dimension of a snail
Ungrateful to the nervous net,
To all that unite you,
To the brain that plans
To the cells which vitalize
To the heart giving the force
To the blood running its course
To the skin, the muscles
The body you've been a part
Thousands of years..
Cram and isolate
You'll never be more
Than a malignant tumour
Healed by the instinct of recovery
The strength of the pulse
The nature of things And the tremble of earthquake |
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