by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer

Dear Misery,

I’m writing you first, because you’re always there. Though many fear you, I have grown accustomed to you, and as you love company, so do I so I keep you close, as close as I’d keep a lover, possibly closer, because a lover may leave, but you are always there. Misery, I’ve been told you are bad for me, and revising the facts I agree, I can’t see us always being this close, but until the day comes and when the day passes, I hope I never come to hate you.

Dear Dreams,
I do not hate you because you fill my sleep with sweetness and then leave in the morning, abandoning me to an often far more bitter reality. I crave your company though often you pass by in darkness refusing to be remembered, and sometimes you come and fill my mornings with wonder. I could never hate you.

Dear Hope,
Hope, I hardly speak highly of you. You know the reason for this, if you don’t know, I do intend to clarify. I crave you, I crave you so much, but your fluctuations from the highest apex to the lowest valley, my poor heart can’t stand that, I convince myself it is best to distance myself from you. The truth is, I could never hate you.

Dear Joy,
I cannot recognise you anymore, you come at the strangest times, in the strangest form and pass before I grasp you. I misunderstand you, your flavour changes and disappears before I savour it. You’re probably the reason I’ve grown weary of hope, hoping for you to come around is a difficult task. Waiting for you to come around is a difficult task. But joy, though I cannot trust you to stay and you are often a stranger before I can grow accustomed to you, I could never hate you.

Dear Love,
I haven’t lost faith in you. You are the strings of my life, I admit I have misplaced you a great many times, and I intend to do so yet again until I find a place for you & I only hope you find a place for me, I don’t have much to say but the fact that I can only hope that I do not grow to hate you.


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