Mahmoud Said Kawash
2025 / 3 / 26
THE LETTERS OF THE END
I saw him disappearing from me
His ink bleeding deliberately
To seclude himself and remain silent
He was living in my lines as a suicide
His letters ascend to the same gallows every day
To practice the same sin of surrendering to my fate
To return as a suicide again
Travelling with the lost lines
Engraving fleeting dreams
Because he knows the end
Just worn-out papers
Weary of departure in the geography of the lands of love
Inhabiting labyrinths of dark caves
And all his anchorage was terrain of dullness and mountains of selfishness
Rocks that draw all his shores
And sails of hearts sailing beyond the borders of his pulse
I read my alienation with my own eyes
My pen speaks about it as rains pour by the clouds of my thought
They meet among the folds of a cloud of Fiery tears
Spewed by the nozzle of my inkwell
How heavy I am
Even my teardrops carry my pain
They are all reflected on the mirror of a city
Carrying my soul
Pain shatters my sad mirrors to smaller ones
Each one carries a part that engraves me
Lost among them I cannot find myself
I am folded by black curtains mourning feelings that were
And suicide pulses on the walls of desolate caves
Condemning my body to depart from me
Oh the pain of my shadow’s reflection
How miserable you are with me
And nothing has made me lonely except you
Stranger I live in my homeland
My identity is exiled
Isn’t this enough for you, to leave me?
Isn’t your farewell enough for me?
So bid me farewell
I have lost the appetite to devour my sorrows alone
I promise you my pen that I will make my palms ports of life for you
And you will never sail again among the meanings of deception
Come, let us inhabit islands of lines that do not swallow mines of people
You have endured for me what is unbearable of bloody inks that write me
And it is time for me to carry you with what is in you of me
Come, let us write together the letters of the end
Yes, the end!!
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