Digital Rabbit Hole

Fleeting Moment by Sugar Mints-DeviantArt

 Click Play to hear a live recital of this poem to the music that inspired it……

Paper Thin
for my family in Jordan in Ramadan

Paper thin, I’m barely here, and you no longer see me.
The night breathes in, out and in, with windows open wide,
just an alien, walking through a rational land; it’s getting lonely.,,
just an alien, walking through a rational land; it’s getting lonely.

Those who glow seem far away, while darkness holds me close.
I remember all the voices, how we bent as one, falling to our knees,
hospitable and always generous, food cascading from our hands…
hospitable and always generous, food cascading from our hands.

My home planet, circles another sun, a trillion billion miles from here
order and chaos alternately reign, and yet we know the Love.
The last time I departed, I knew it would be a lifetime to return….
The last time I departed, I knew it would be a lifetime to return.

Paper thin and light as air, I miss the other ones who float like me.
I get lost in all those memories, all those rituals, traditions and epiphanies,
waking before the dawn, knowing there is something that listens…when I say thank you.
waking before the dawn, knowing there is something that listens…when I say thank you.

My home planet, circles another sun, a trillion billion miles from here
order and chaos alternately reign, and yet we know the Love.
The last time I departed, I knew it would be a lifetime to return….
The last time I departed, I knew it would be a lifetime to return.

Karima Hoisan
June 9, 2017
Costa Rica
*Footnote I am here, alone, in Costa Rica this Ramadan.