Poetry: Ahmad Al-Khatat

​3 Poems
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by Ahmad Al-
Khatat 

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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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