Shadows And Echoes Of Fearful Pain Of Past Memories Poem by nadia abduljabbar

Shadows and echoes beckon to me
To follow them to a vague
Place full of T.V and net;
To fall in the very same
Trap that hurt my very
Injured soul before.

They want to torture
Me again and again,
They mock me, laugh at
Me; tease me saying:
“ You will never see tangible
Reality; you will be confined
With the world of symbols
As long as you fully lead
This forlorn life of yours”.

I spent two sleepless nights
Crying from such a fortune,
Why should it happen to me
For a third time; I have just
Got rid of my feelings for
A schizophrenic suitor
Who wanted to tie me
To net all day long.

Now there are cipher
in the electronic air
Telling me I am before
A man like no other men,
Romantic; oh yes he is so,
But he is also so adventurous,
Crafty and strong,

Hence, I am between
Two drastic ends:
Either to be in the sorcerer’s land,
Or to stay waiting like Lady of Shalott
For the never coming distant Knight.

Jeddah
28, Feb 2014