Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Secrets of the Bear
A dirty stuffed white bear
Thrown, thrown with the blue
Garbage bags haphazardly bare
The signature of disowning the few
Possessions that have lived
Through childhood’s changes
As growing is synonymous to dispossessed
Of imagination’s flow in ages
Where a bear’s innocent eyes
Bare witness to catastrophic
Events, from divorce, to cries
Of violence, to bombs that are cathartic
In their release of pent up emotions
That only the innocent bear perceives
And gives succor where hidden sensations
Are incubated within this cuddly stuffies
Innocently hidden for years
Before the child feels strong enough
To survive without his secret prayers’
Confidant who seems to be rough
Around the edges, but still soft
To the touch as he imparts comfort
In the imprisoned loft
Where tears poores out in the fort
Of his making, where secrets
Are hidden, trauma rises, pain
Transmute into rivers of bloody tests
Overcome with faith, ethics enliven
The soul with power
Suffusing limbs, heart
To be stronger
And live longer, healthier.
©️ 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 