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Domestic Problems



Four walls surround her fear
A prison that's worse than hell
The sharp song in her ear
is a mix of his shouts and yells
He attacks the door of her room
like the untamed wrath of a hurricane
The only eye witness is the moon
peering through the window pane
Her wounded heart's bleeding in her lap
with waterfalls springing from her eyes
Her frightened thouhgts overlap
weaving a plan of flight
No longer can the net of lies
contain the sanity of her mind
No longer can her closed eyes
bear seeing the pain inside
She grabs a back pack and starts
packing necessary things
panicking is her shaking heart
The door is about to cave in
The window is her freedom gate
She moves stealthily like a shadow
Breaking the door but he's too late
His daughter slipped through the window.
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Submitted on February 21, 2017

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Scheme ABCDEFGFHIHJIKILMNOPQRQR
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 771
Words 144
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24

Dema Al-Obaidy

لم يعرفوني في الظلال التي تمتص لوني في جواز السفر.......وكان جرحي عندهم معرضا لسائح يعشق جمع الصور......لم يعرفوني..آه لا تتركي كفي بلا شمس.......لأن الشجر يعرفني؛ تعرفني كل اغاني المطر.......لا تتركيني شاحبا كالقمر! ......عار من الاسم من الانتماء في تربة ربيتها باليدين......ايوب صاح اليوم ملء السماء لا تجعلوني عبرة مرتين!........يا سادتي يا سادتي الانبياء لا تسألوا الاشجار عن اسمها لا تسألوا الوديان عن امها......من جبهتي ينشق سيف الضياء ومن يدي ينبع ماء النهر.........كل قلوب الناس جنسيتي.......فلتسقطوا عني جواز السفر. more…

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