It's Been A Year

by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer 

It’s been a year…

And I’ve felt the most amount of pain my brain could contain & I can claim that I maintained my sanity

I’ve lost and gained my faith in humanity one too many times to say I understand reality

& my reality provided me with a dream come true, as distant as it may be from my grasp

I have grasped in this past year more concepts and ideas than ever before

& I feel I am little more wiser than I was two years ago when It comes to what really matters

Matters of the heart, mind body and soul, my being as a whole and how I gain and lose control

Still refuse to roll… that way or enrol in the game that’s staged daily against my principles

In the past year I’ve grown, only to grow younger in some aspects I thought I’d gotten past

A forgotten past remembered and a tender present rendered more fragile by intentions

Realisations and understandings, now demanding a change for the better

So, it’s been a year a wonderful year, & I hope many more to come provide me with patterns of truth to hold dear