A Poem For Today - My Library

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My Library

My books remain on the shelves as I left them last year,

but all the words have died.

I search for my favorite book,

Out of Place.

I find it lying lonely in a drawer,

next to the photo album and my old Nokia phone.

The pen inside the book is still intact,

but some ink drops have leaked.

Some words breathe its ink,

the pen like a ventilator

for a dozen patients:

Home, Jerusalem, the sea, Haifa,

the rock, the oranges, the sand,

the pigeon, Cairo, my mother,

Beirut, books, the rock, the sea, the sea.

- Mosab Abu Toha

[John Jai Conley]

🙏

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue

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