“O ALLAH
if You must take my mama now
please give her the paradise
and bless me to be living so this time
 we’re being with each other forever”

Mama

I’m here always still being there
on the threshold of the room where
you’re lying there waiting for me
by yourself all alone with no cover
on a bed that you’re renting—
something you’ve always owned—
just to be being here . . . closer to me
your lips are majestically purple-ing 
in their eternal proclamationing
the purpose of your life
keeping me forever 
safe and warm
in your arms
. . . here we are Mama at last
leaning on the horizon
of our mutual embracing
in this pausing momenting
of all my chasing
my tears are cleansing my soul
so my eyes are seeing you now 
and I’m hearing the sommoning
of all your lonelying tears
that I never made time to wipe away
by just being near to see 

voice recording at www.nadhiriwrites.com

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