March 01, 2021

Poem

"I cry for you a river in a unique season..."

"...to write with a broken heart at midnight..."

"...I wanted to make them laugh To forget about my own grief..."

"...I found no hope to live like a king or as a happy person..."

"...dripping rare honey..."

"...a sip to forget the bitterness of war..."

"...I laugh with her liquors and she cries with my bread..."

"...with worries, that I will miss her one day..."

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad. From Iraq, he came to Canada at the age of 10, the same age when he wrote his first poem back in the year 2000. He also has been published in several press publications and anthologies all over the world.

"...spring goes to the bar to drink whiskey..."

"...there was a stranger in the blue sea..."

"...I will die from missing you..."

"...Racism is not an assignment to do...

"...I give no second chance to anyone..."

"...I am dying of this heartless world..."

"...watching my friends funerals everyday..."

"...Your voice still sounds like a song..."

"...waiting for the woman with a yellow umbrella, to dance with me..."

"...he's down like a thrown cigarette..."

"...what do you want to do when you grow up?..."

"...I have lost happiness above the sinking boat above the river of my dark grief..."

"...If I don't feel much in love anymore..."

"...to death against my broken heart..."

"...does not have a voice or a civil place in society..."

"...The moonlight over Montreal is a restful sight..."

"...We were weak in times, but we never fall..."

"...shatter my excitements and love me..."

"...Judge me underneath the dark clouds..."