Nature within
Mustafa Abdulmalek Al-Sumaidi
Poem ‘Nature within’
Nature an absolute whole
It lingers in all things
The visible breathes
so does the invisible
Stones hold pre-sound hymns
held in stillness
Winds break as lost language
half-shaped, half-gone
We do not only watch
Something watches through us
Roots reach into the hidden
stars pulse at the distant edge
No clear looking—
only the folding of space
between what is
and what we might be