In another world
I want to be a father / mother
without passing through the eternal insanity of mourning my children
without experiencing the ritual of watching my children return home as bodies folded like a prayer mat
without spending my nights telling them the stories of a hometown where natives become aliens searching for a shelter
I want my children to spread a mat outside my house and play without the walls of houses ripped by rifles
I want to watch my children grow to recite the name of their homeland like the Lord’s prayer
to frolic in the streets without being hunted like animals in the bush
without being mobbed to death
in another world
I want my children to tame grasshoppers in the field
to play with their dolls in the living room.
to inhale the fragrance of flowers, waving as wind blows.
to see the birds measure the sky with their wings.
#nblocpartyvol1 #inanotherworld
