On June 26th, 2015, ISIS attacked a Shia mosque… It happened in the tiny, peaceful emirate of Kuwait during Friday prayers in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. As I grappled with the aftermath of this tragedy, I wrote a patriotic poem in response to the attack. Weeks later, as I returned to my spiritual core, I wrote a second poem, Ode to a Terrorist. This view was more expansive and resonated from my heart. Though there are traces of the ego - in the form of "hate" - there are instances where the soul remembers that "we were one." We still are, though we resist acknowledging it. May it resonate in your soul. Ode to a Terrorist by Nejoud Al-Yagout You are a thought, manifested Whose thought are you? Yours, mine, ours? Somewhere in a paradigm beyond the temporal, spatial We were one Read your heart; there are sonnets of love And, yet you make it so complicated Believing thoughts that are not even yours Dancing to others’ pr...
Women's Spiritual Poetry