Rainbow asleep in the Hat

 

By Maysoon Al- Eryani

Everything says how you may die
Why do you keep singing your name
You need not to wear that pure voice
Or A fragrant hat
No need to hum with a voice that is not yours
With A fake throat
you  need not to burn your dreams
Or smoke a large opium cigarette
Just throw me away
While I’m clinging to your bored perfume
And keep standing against the sky
Whenever it ignores you
Just say "Damn"
And the rainbow will collapse
Then, you wouldn’t die alone
Or so you believe:
That only two of you can be quiet:
The poet
Who has left his morning, lonely, dawn to rust
And the philosopher.
Who has broken the chessboard
Then sank in divine music
So did the birds say
Before the world could wake up