E & All is Well - Day 5 AtoZ Challenge & Day 6 Napowrimo

 Day 5 #AtoZchallenge

#AtoZChallenge

Day 6 #Napowrimo

when you and i meander in our journey

i wish we’d be together

yes, we are there side by side

but i can see that you are not present

shoulder to shoulder we lie

i check the moon and you the phone

i wait for the hand and you slide

into sleep

the concrete around consumes my dreams

between the metal and glass, dreams vanish

i feel a forest grow thick around, time ticks

and drifts, we burrow inside

i’d wish to wander through you

well enough to traverse through.

the city burns in neon glow, the lamp post

sings a sign - kul shay’ ealaa ma yuram*

* Arabic - all is well

Go to a book you love. Find a short line that strikes you. Make that line the title of your poem. Write a poem inspired by the line. Then, after you’ve finished, change the title completely.

This prompt, which comes from Holly Lyn Walrath, is pretty simple as she explains it here.

I just finished reading (yesterday evening) "Strangers" by Nazik Al-Malaika, an Iraqi poet and the the line “Our silence is the echo of a frightening warning” caught my attention. Since this was fresh in my mind, I took that as my prompt and starting point. The Arabic is not from the poem though, I first wrote "all is well" and then thought to add the translation.