I Started...The Endings Are Or Will Be Anythings Poem by Atef Ayadi

I write

for one reason:

to maximize my chances for survival.

if I can do it differently
I would not add a word on top of what I wrote.

if I am
given
the option

to look at Eileen
or to write.

hey!

I will choose the first option.


It is free;
not that free!

but I have the chance

to create my home fences

with the blue of Eileen eyes.
it is like owning a lake, or an ocean;
and
I like to look at a lake thinking
it is an ocean.

I like to feel water,
the rain,
the dew, and the fog.
I like the
snow as an option.

If you add the human
elements
or Eileen elements.

that is the perfect opium I need
to explore and win over
the hardship of life.