By Rahaf Al Mubarak
To the sapphirine warmth of winter’s susurrous reveries,
Mind-melting catastrophes embrace,
Undertones of a heartbeat’s lyrics ignite,
Sentiments’ skeletons pirouette in psychedelic socks,
Glacial words slip through lips and sink into souls,
Muffled escapism incinerate snowflakes,
Sightless stars consume our thirsts,
We display nothing but lashes as we savor the sapphirine warmth of winter’s susurrous reveries,
Nothing but lashes and a cold glass of heat.
Breaths of sweet phantasmagoria,
I sip on your exhalations with these insatiable lips
I digest your hallucinations through a monstrous peristalsis
Into a starless stream you spread
Into a moonless mind you melt
From these stifled thoughts you arise; a psychedelic rebirth is felt
By Rahaf AlMubarak
Seconds of celestial subsequence,
I inhale the seasons and the skies
I imbibe a surreptitious waltz by some blind, starry-eyed fireflies
I launch my mind’s arrows at a companionless galaxy
From the constellation to my lips,
My heart’s words melt in my mouth from the heat of a star that has slaughtered gravity
My thoughts metamorphose into ink and I whisper the lunacy I would write in a million letters
I weave what I breathe in, soak up, and send out into a web of unspoken sentiments as melodious enigmas steadily unfetter.
Kuwait Writing Club 