Sunday, December 14, 2025

the mardin of my mind

why mardin
why not some other place
someplace more
i dunno, more,
armenian?

it is in my mind
this ancient syriac,
old assyrian town,
where we might 
have once met
in a shared dream

this mardin of my mind
not my city, not yours
but who remembers
all our incarnations?

maybe it's just 
that song that
one lovely song 
a simple love song
a melody from the soul
and lyrics profound,
well, just two 
disjoint lines

she appeared as a moon...
and took my mind away

with a chanted counterpoint
echoing from an old stone
church in the mardin 
of my mind

he gave his only
begotten daughter...

december 2025
best read, at least once, listening to:  dalal oy dalal


 

 



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