EMBRACE -1-
You wake up your suitcase
You take out your brush
You look for a pure woman
Your body explodes with words
And glides, into the green
While you doze into the darkness of the day

EMBRACE -2-
He embraces his loneliness
He sleeps in the open air
Leaving his shoes
At the threshold of a waiting door

IGNITION -1-
I set fire to my body
While the streets doze in rain
I take my glass between two flames
And I pour my embers to the bottom of the glass
When you wake up
I set fire to letters on a blank page

VISION
The sea cajoles me in my dream
I pour night into a lamp post
And drag my wounds behind me,
I’m looking for what it means
To be defeated

EXILE
My hand stained the surface of a table
And the smell of my body was drowsy
The continents woke up that night
And in the stains on the table, I drowned

Abdul Wahab Aloraid is a Saudi poet and journalist born in 1965 and director of editing for the qafilah magazine issued by Saudi Aramco