 3 Poems by Ahmad Al- Khatat The Gypsy Prayer Sometimes I think I am less than more than a human who’s always experiencing the brutality of being vulnerable and pray without being known the gypsy prayer In the house of God, most of the people choose to take advantage of my family Meanwhile, when I am around my sinner friends, they taught me “enough is enough.” I dress the way I dress without any regulations I talk the way I talk without any limitations I walk the way I walk within my boundaries and I’ll die the way I wished with the sufferings Being happy with someone you love could be more of a curse than a gift, as being miserable creates, hides emotions and tears whenever my mind, body, soul slowly bleeds to death. Lonely and Homesick When you see the dead kitten in the cage you say: oh, this is a dead kitten in the cage When you see the dead puppy in the nest you say: oh, this is a dead puppy in the nest When you see love birds biting each other's wing feathers off you then realize that you have been stabbed to death many times When you see a coffin behind my photo frame you say: oh, this is a sad friend in the casket. But when you lose a country and a close friend you will say nothing, but cry for being lonely and homesick 29/08/2020 Bleeding Heart Poet Copyright Room for Madness I am neither sad nor happy I have locked myself in a room of madness for a long time, for no specific reason. With the water of my eyes I write about my sorrows as if the rain was pouring more sadness to open my wounds My tongue has been silent Waiting on the moment to scream and break the wine glasses before we get drunk The curse of war turned me into a book of the blind, mute and deaf. Since the world is ignoring the widow’s dream. The day I learned to count the bodies and bullets, I knew that I will never count the sheeps to my little baby at the night. Today, I am a slave to my grief The jailer cries along with the prisoner for reading the journey that made my grave into a room of madness. Bleeding Heart Poet Copyright © Due to the crisis in Lebanon, Ahmad is donating the proceeds from his books sales to help with the situation. You can find his books here.  Bio: Ahmad Al-Khatat, was born in Baghdad, Iraq on May 8th. He has been published in several press publications and anthologies all over the world and has poems translated in several languages. He has published two poetry books “The Bleeding Heart Poet” and “Love On The War’s Frontline” which are available on Amazon. Most of his new and old poems are also available on his official page Bleeding Heart Poet on Facebook.
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