El Nino / La Nina

A poem dedicated for someone who waited for a lover that never came back

 In this land of two summers,

 I've spent four staring outside the

 windowpanes of my heart

 searching for you amidst the barrenness

 of the Earth.

 

When the angels left the faucets running,

I paid the bill with sadness.

 

 Through the blur of the downpour,

 I drew a picture of you beaming

 the way you only did with your mother.

 The splash of boots against the wet pavement

 had my chest beating like a bass drum,

 had me praying upon a nameless stranger

 defying the weather,

 a shadow splitting the night in half.

You never came around.

 

 The sound of dripping was an aria of violence,

 betraying my breaking.

 It was a conductor that divided the air with his palm and

 when the choir chorused,

 everyone suddenly became a poet. 

 Through the sweating glass panes,

 I made out your silhouettes to be full of light.

 The scurrying feet of children outside

 had my organs churning on themselves like a bike pedal,

 had my eyes scanning the landscape and

 pointing to everywhere you weren't,

 a pair of aimless lovers mourning a loss unmapped.

 

You never came around.

 

 The squeals of boys and girls hurrying to

 get to ice cream stores

 chimed my doors rusty and dull.

 It was a conductor that divided the air with his palm and

 when the choir chorused,

 everyone suddenly became a poet. 

 

Through the deaths and the rebirths of the land,

I have stayed as faithful as a witness.

 

 In this land of two summers,

 I've spent four bent on my desk

 penning you poems in perfect rhyme,

 forgetting that you never knew how to read anything

 but the language of her tongue.

You never came around.

 

Reviews

[Fatma :)]

this is so beautiful and touching.. my god! this got me into tears for some reason ahaha

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