WHERE I BELONG
AFGHAN BY ROOTS, RAISED IN IRAN , AND LIVING IN NORWAY
Ongoing Project
eternity
for days I've been trapped in the claws of a melody
It comes slow
then turns wild
frenzied, climbing the walls
to seize my shadow
I crumple in its grip
become void
minute after minute
eternitv after eternitv-
when does the clock exhale?
-Soraia Khawari
imagine
imagine you, lost
in the belly of fog
among the ribs of trees-
your eyes catching
just a lantern
flickering in no-place-land
-Soraia Khawari
who?
who gave you permission
to tear me apart
trap my pieces in a jar
and bury me-
unremembered-
in a blind corner?
do you even know?
had I not dammed my tears,
the deluge—
who’d drown first?
me?
or you?
-Soraia Khawari
