Between Bone And Breath Poem by Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker Abdalla

The peom was written on the fourth of January 2026 the poem was written in the shadow of a life-altering accident that left me with a subtrochanteric fracture and a distal fracture of the left femur. In those moments, pain was no longer just a sensation—it became a landscape I had to inhabit. The poem was born from hospital nights, from the stillness of ceilings, from the quiet war between endurance and despair. The title reflects the fragile space I lived in: between what was broken in the body and what remained unbroken in the spirit. "Bone" represents the physical fracture—the sharp, clinical reality of injury. "Breath" represents survival, presence, and the invisible strength that continues even when the body cannot move. I chose to keep some medical language inside the poem because trauma often arrives in technical terms. Doctors speak in diagnoses; patients feel in metaphors. The poem bridges these two worlds—the clinical and the emotional. More than a poem about injury, this is a poem about resilience. It is about discovering that while bones can break, identity does not have to. Recovery is slow, trembling, imperfect—but it is still a form of rising. This piece stands as a testament: I was broken, but I was not defeated.