Role Models

Role Models

 

By: Husam (Sam) Salman

 

 

You were supposed
To be good role models; then,
I realize that you’re not.

You are the one who should

Know how to navigate
This storm called life,
THIS problem I’m having.

Where is that rock I swim to?

I know no such place…
There, on a lost voyage
Home
I stare blankly at the canvas
Without an answer for the
Question

 Because the honest

Truth is that I never

Was taught any truth

These are the life
Lessons
Learned through mistakes
And wounded knee

Arms reaching vast dark empty

Feeling out what is good and bad
Through CC debt and career
Paths that lead down unemployment
Corridors more than to any office

 Here in the injustice of my past

I reach no further with wanton eyes
And fingers of blame
Here in the now, I start
Create a new – life
Style and foundation.

 

It’s never too late to begin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Push Past the Fog

Push Past the Fog

 

By: Husam (Sam) Salman

 

Who peered at you with sideways smile

That thing that you wore that day…that…that was hot

You would have slapped me if you read my mind

Like that night by the barn, that kiss was everything!

 

Like the fog could not lift, you stood there haunting me

The tap-tap-tap on the glass told me the skies were finally

Dousing LA, like us, when we were naked - Fucking

That moment will live eternal, etched in the heavens

Glistened by the light as drops fell on steaming shoulders stood

Between here and the streetlight.

 

A spark in the sky cast shadows giants deep

Eager was the kiss – F-F-F-F-f-f-f-u-uck YEAH….!!!

Like a prophet, things came from a place of meaning

Creating a deeper inner enlightenment with every word

With every kiss blessed upon these lips.

 

It was like the clouds were parting

And I was slowly drying

Arid land, parched and nearing

But only at arm’s length at times

I could taste a resolution around some blind turn.

 

That connection was a slow smile

Bought on by awkward conversation

Over some noodle dish neither one was enjoying

Suddenly looking for that silver lining, darkness inevitable.

 

I swore there was lightning yesterday, peering at me

With a sideways smile, that thing that you wore that day

…that…that was hot, you would have slapped me if

You read my mind…like that night by the barn,

THAT kiss was everything.