Fatima Nusairat Poet Free verse

I Lied

I Lied! When I said I can read dreams 
and one day I'll get you a healing herb. 
I Lied! I was like a waterfall unaware 
Where to go with all these circlings filled by exiles. 
 
I was a tired river 
Lashed by the wind whenever it approached the banks. 
I lied! when I colored the anxiety water with dawn’s red wine. 
I ran, and my footsteps hold me to balcony dreams 
I waited and watched, and ah what a long time I wait! 
  
These tears that ignite from salt and blood 
No longer, but spring’s commonage
Bloom on water’s  'black roses' with perfume grief.
 
I lied! because I thought I can read dreams 
and one day I'll get you the healing herb.

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