Where do I stand when neither side recognizes me as one of them.
RAHA ARAZWhere do I stand when neither side recognizes me as one of them.
RAHA ARAZCan you taste the colors your ancestors weaved into, The armors of resilience they wore; Can you taste the colors of the unpaved path before you, waiting to be colored by you?
RAHA ARAZI remember so little that I can’t forget enough.
RAHA ARAZHow can I not love you from a distance when you breathe the same way I do, Have the same needs I do? Search for the same purpose and meaning that I do ? Why must there be me over here and you over there that do not live in the same world?
RAHA ARAZMany times over my eyes have devoured the layers of your skin but I’ve never seen you naked.
RAHA ARAZIt is not thanks to you but in spite of you that we have just one day to look down from the top. The mountains we move should have never been there.
RAHA ARAZFor him, my body was for him.
RAHA ARAZLet your memories fall into place, you don’t have to carry all of them at once.
RAHA ARAZI am suffocating in the vacancy of the overflowing space, can you feel me reaching out?
RAHA ARAZHave you ever heard silence? How do you hear the silence? You don’t, you feel it. And they stared at the silence between them.
RAHA ARAZWhy are we told to be afraid to hurt? Why do we avoid, run and hide? Cover up inside with shields of armor, Our shins, and elbows made of pads of plastic; We are not made of glass and tattered bits, It’s not weakness when our strength builds us to last.
RAHA ARAZTake a souvenir you don’t have to keep, just pretend you want to remember.
RAHA ARAZFor time does nothing for you if you do nothing with it.
RAHA ARAZThough it may be the season I’m not quite in bloom but slowly unfolding to where I may accept the sun and someday bloom.
RAHA ARAZThey are simple creatures they see right through you and if by chance they miss you, they will make you believe you were never there.
RAHA ARAZIf ever happiness happens to forget you even a little bit, never completely forget about it.
RAHA ARAZ