Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Excellent use of hypophora, Malak! You use profound questions to focus attention on the nature of home and the uncertainty of the future. Your amazing and touching personal narrative is so poignant and adds great beauty to this poem. Your deep experience justifies your admonition, “Embrace the joy you’re given,/For tomorrow may bring hell or heaven.” Superb poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell
Home?
Where is home?
What is home?
These questions circle
Ceaselessly and kindle
The quest for answers for:
Where and what is home for?
I’ve immigrated to three
Continents searching for thee.
Why do you hide from me?
Why do you flee and oblige me
To search you out in lands gone mad?
How is that fair on a child who feels bad?
From the tropics, to the Mediterranean,
To North America, in search of what you mean.
The child in me
Misses the simplicity of love,
Laughter that is innate,
But shaken with wars and fate,
That take away all joy and faith
In a moment of stolen breath.
Embrace the joy you’re given,
For tomorrow may bring hell or heaven.
©️ 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
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