Akim Alshami Poems

Why do I feel so lost at times
Within the confines of my home
It's not as if something is broke
Or moved by some capricious ghost
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Do words lose meaning when they're read
Not on paper or bounded thread
But held by currents high and low
Charging behind the screen I hold
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As red as flame her hair is set and flows
Like auburn leaves falling with ease in Fall
And eyes like ocean whirlpools caught in stone
She sits with grace upon her four wheel throne
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A considerate applause you hear
From distant gathering of passers by
Nothing unites them all but spectacle
Of balls thrown high above and juggled on
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I wonder at the lives out there
The houses that I pass, the cars
The ones sitting in front of me
And others that I cannot see
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