When a heart is encased in barbed wires, you fear for the health of its owner:
Barbed Wire Heart
Exert
Barbed wires dripping in blood
Wrap around her heart, squeezing it in a flood
Of red tears, turning white sclera into a pool
Of cherry wine, denoting melancholy’s icy cool
Creating frostbite around a heart already
So woebegone it can barely pump fluidly
Into veins and arteries distributing a lifely
Aversion to disenchantment in a worldly…
©️Malak Kalmoni Chehab ©️
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 