Title: The Weight of Longing

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: The Weight of Longing

Kasia Dominik 

Title: The Weight of Longing

I am longing, a shadow

that falls on my path

when I open my eyes in the morning

and the world seems different,

emptier, more silent.

A hand stretched out into the void,

waiting for a touch.

The warmth of a extinguished fireplace

on a cold night – a memory.

It gnaws into my days,

like the roots of a tree

that grows inside me.

It doesn't let go.

Tangled with thoughts,

with the silence in an empty house,

there is a whisper that speaks of

what has been left unsaid.

It is a river flowing against the current

the burden I carry,

but also all that remains of you.

Dad, I am longing.

Kasia Dominik (Poland)

documentation: Waffaa Badarneh