Flooded Prayers
By Mohammed Moussa
Everyone will drown
in a house without a roof
in a world without mercy,
watching you stripped of everything
as you clothe yourself
in your weakness
and helplessness,
drowning in the tears
of the sky.
The world will not look
upon your bloodied face.
Do not stop speaking
or being silent
in the face of the sky.
Pray.
May your prayers
be soaked in the tears of the sky,
and may the sky stop crying on a whole roofless city, begging a warm death
to pass by.
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