Joy

Yasmin Odeh

Joy 

You are such an immense joy 

A touch like a corduroy 

Hair as silky as lingerie 

Love as broad as the milky way 

Carry on your passions for life 

Potential as sharp as a knife 

Convert your dreams into substance 

Leap past your troubles of a fence 

A smile as bright as the moon at the break of midnight 

Take your aspirations and begin to expedite 

You, as a striking presence in the midst of a setting 

A broken and pained existence adjacent nearby you 

Will experience their concealed struggles offsetting 

The hardships become a commodity that is see-through