Silhouettes: On The Beach

By Ibrahim Isam

We walk toward the water,
letting the tide take our feet, as if we are entrusting it with some of what has grown heavy within us.

There, at the quiet edge between water and land, things become a little lighter.
The heart lets go of so many names, and life becomes simpler than we once believed it could be.

Only water and sky, and faces searching for a moment of stillness.
We ask nothing of the sea, except that it remind us of what we have forgotten:

that life, at its heart, never needed to be so complicated.

It is enough to be here,
to feel the water, to look at the sky,
and to give the soul a little time to remember its way back to simplicity.

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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