asilhrashidDec 9, 2019To My Younger Self (original poem)One day you will think, “I am a fuse in the centre of an armed camp.” One day you will feel like the panther in Rilke’s poem, Moving...
asilhrashidDec 9, 2019On Sudan (original poem)My land, my home, my African heart You gave me language, character. You straddled two worlds like a giant. Now you are still. They cut...
asilhrashidDec 9, 2019Underwater Dreams (original poem)Five steps from the shore, I dive and enter another world. A world defined by silence and riotous color. As my eyes and lungs adjust, I...