# A nightmare

- Writer: Ibtissam Ibrahim
- Published: 2021-07-17
- Topic: Stories & Novels
- URL: https://mirdad.app/articles/2285/A-nightmare
- Source: Mirdad (mirdad.app), an Arabic writing and reading platform. Every piece is reviewed by an editor before it is published.

Like a nightmare on a bed 
I was walking in my fog
stepping in my  alienation
kneeling  down carrying the 
sound of sunset
I became stumbling by the 
echo
by the longing, 
I've  been guarding
the doors of ruin
to massage the palm of my 
heart 
so that the scars can not   
pigment  him 

Poem by 
Ibtissam Ibrahim  - poetess  and translator 

Iraq - Baghdad