Title: Hail Cloud

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: Hail Cloud

Kasia Dominik

Title: Hail Cloud

Suspended in the sky,

heavy with unspoken words,

I grow roots upward.

My mouth turns to cement,

marble lips, cold and silent,

and angry sparks burn in my eyes—

a dim sun,

illuminating fragments of thought.

Others circle around me without a soul,

whispering, trying to touch,

but I am in a stormy dimension,

a labyrinth of emotions where frustration

infects like a virus.

My tongue becomes a thorny plant,

a thorn penetrating the heart.

Instead of conversation, there's a hum of shapeless sounds,

silence screaming at the top of its lungs.

Inside me, explosions,

furious volcanoes and longings,

all mixed in a soup

of dreams and disappointments –

and I just stand there,

like a statue in a silent garden.

Kasia Dominik 

(Poland)

documentation: Waffaa Badarneh