Come now
Arab queen
African dream
Baghdad mystery
future history.
Set your feet on the footsteps –
they’re your own, you just haven’t
made them yet –
that lead to my
sky blue soul
delivered every morning
and a thousand years old.
All I have
is a shrug and a song
a sense of real and wrong
so come on
risk a ride
on the sea train.
* * *
Wael Abdelgawad
Fresno, California
8-25-2015