in Genre - Hope Genre - Humanity Genre - Imagination Genre - Reflection PH 2012 (Poems) Poems - English Poems by Shaikha Al-Mutairi Shaikha Al-Mutairi
From the Beginning of the History of Wheat
by. Ms. Shaikha Al-Mutairi
From the beginning of the history of wheat
Till the first song of bread
Asks a hungry child
Can I have a loaf of warmth?
Can I ride a horse of light?
Can I have a window which I can open
To close my broken one?
From the beginning of the history of coldness
Till the first song of rain
Asks a child,
His umbrella his palms,
Can I have a shirt
To live in
With my fears and forlorness?
And in which in the cold
My arms can live in?
Can I have
A roof of Dreams
Under whose sky
I can gather myself alone
And sleep?