Dust In Cursive Letters

For mom...For all whose loved ones departed...prose poetry...Just a remembrance...

Dust In Cursive Letters           by Sami Khalil

For mom…to all who passed away. prose poetry…just a remembrance…

For the ghost of you, I saluted every passerby (we are all such).

Unfortunately, senescence crashed the party.

I circled you like a satellite, drifting into space then through void.

No one escapes gravity without a reckoning force,

silence short of removing the duct-tape upon dry mouths.

I peered through rabbit holes, only to find no rabbits.

The truth of your departure was wrapped into boxed moments, delivered with trembling hands, stamped with common sorrows.

I tried to catch your breath through the air, simply to realize it was far too late.

My walls still hold your quiet silhouettes, like stars that can’t speak your name, even in faint whispers.

Honestly, I have lost my iron grips, clasping tired lines into confessions.

I’m hoping to drag warm blankets over your memories; the eulogies you can’t coldly ignore.

I’m not certain if it is the fog of endless grieving that makes us seethe with anger, wreathe with clangor.

 

Prison has cast me down, waiting on pins and needles, to be reduced to dust in cursive letters.  

 

 

Reviews

[Lisasview]

Oh my goodness Sami,
I think this might be the very best poem I have read of your thus far.
I am crying as I type... pretty blurry to see the letters on the keys...
I loved every word. My sisters and I alway say that when a butterfly passes by it is our mother.
I the beginning there was this one butterfly that was always near...we knew it was her...she loved butterflies.
Anyway, this line is amazing peered through rabbit holes, only to find no rabbits.
and so is this one I’m hoping to drag warm blankets over your memories; the eulogies you can’t coldly ignore.
I feel this is a brilliant write.
Lisa, now in Spain

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So good to know and share. I feel you too and the pain of loss. I'm so glad to see you visit and share. Thank you kindly for all.

[Lisasview]

You are so welcome dearest Sami...
Lisa, still working on my poems in Spain

[Sami Khalil]

Good place to be. I like to see Andalusia one day.

[Lisasview]

We live in Costa Blanca North and a town called Benitachell, just a very few minutes to the sea.
read moreWe live in Costa Blanca North and a town called Benitachell, just a very few minutes to the sea.
Lisa, early morning here

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! Lucky you. Enjoy!

[Nima.Hope]

This is a brilliant poem and an absolute masterpiece. Moms are wonderful. Even the most autocrat men are are weak when it comes to their mother. We shall all salute the mother's, for they forgive ours and our fathers mistakes.
Very well done Sami. Thank you very much for sharing.ay all the moms rest in piece in heaven �™
Best Wishes
Nima

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! So true and well articulated Nima. Beautiful name. Heaven is under the feet of mothers. They are special to God. Honoring them is a duty.
I was feeling sad, remembering her, although she passed long time ago in Lebanon. My dad passed too. May Allah bless her, them all.

[Nima.Hope]

Thank you. This name in Persian means "grace".
The quote you mentiond is from prophete Mohammad I guess. I know because I was grown in an Islamic country.
We must not be sad, but surely we do miss them. No mother likes to se her child being depressed. That's the uniqueness of mothers.
Have a nice day:)

[Sami Khalil]

I'm a spiritual Muslim, too. Praise be to Allah(The God in Arabic or The Lord for those not familiar) and blessings be upon His prophet and Ahl Al Beit. You are welcome. Lebanon is 70 % Muslim. Majority Shiites. I was raised in a Shiite family. I take the good message from every religion but disagree with their doctrines. Take care.

[Sami Khalil]

By the way you are right: The prophet Muhammad said it.

[Nima.Hope]

اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد surely is a very long phrase in English and you did a nice job translating it.
Good luck my friend🌸

[Sami Khalil]

All true and well said.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

The metaphors are so damn good here. I am jealous.
and that prison...one I am also in, wondering when my day comes to be ashes...if my spirit will get
to meet up with my folks again, to tell them how much they were appreciated.
"wrapped into boxed moments" "clasping tired lines into confessions" "drag warm blankets over your memories"
How do you come up with these? just amazing.

[Sami Khalil]

OMG. An honor indeed from the star. I'm humbled and encouraged sir Jacob. I just take my thoughts like football, run with them to the finished lines. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
I hope we can meet our folks, wrote poetry too in the afterlife.
Long live Jacob!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

No star, Sami, just another poet making his way through life and verse.

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! To us you are.

[Ken Simm.]

An extraordinary profound use of language Sami. So many individual phrases "boxed in" "Quiet sillhoettes". So many fine descriptions of mood, atmosphere and thought. Yes, extraordinary.",

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! An honor indeed coming from you sir. Million thank yous for the continued support and sharing.
You are inspirational