Time cascaded
to a timeless timeline
I see hooves and dusty clouds
wind absent of breath
a voiceless desert
I enter a tent
of silent murmurs
incantations of devoted lovers
offering water to parched lips
met by refusal and silent sighs
sleepless nights
children’s cries
I question why
beneath a crimson sky
I witness stars lament
a moon in seclusion
concealed in clouds
she cries hussain
as I cry Zainab
I pray for rain
to remove this pain
Euphrates refuses to evaporate
the scorching sun denies shade
a natural paradox
of inverted truths
I bear witness
upon these sands
of ancestral lands
to a timeless era
as I close my eyes
undeniably I was present
as I am now
as a witness to retell the untold
let me remind you
I am a timeless soul