Writer: Anthony Salandy
Editor: Doaa Saady
Shattered clay and strewn leaves
Do lament on earthen grounds tormented
By winds whose hostility grows rampant,
Swiveling and twirling all round their framing
As they depart their crease
Crunching beneath one’s feet,
Where clouds appear as one breathes-
And hoary rain whispers cool truths
On the downtrodden souls
Of the meek who inherit and inhabit Earth,
In conformity, chants a choir
Of elegant finches and sparrows
In a ravishing land where the vibrant orange rivers mirror a soothing sky,
But torment exists in Perpetual
As restless minds grow consumed
By ethereal worry and phobia,
A season so calm yet so fraught
Where daylight shimmers and wind howls
And nighttime’s gloom becomes vigilant-
Until all rustlings may lay dormant
Amongst arboreal creatures nocturnal
And hoary elements-
That grows ever stronger as a year begins anew.
