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Remember to Carry Me in Your Heart
by Amirah Al Wassif
Remember
to carry me in your heart
when the world tightens around us.
Remember to kiss my forehead
whenever the fires of the world's hatred scorch it.
Remember to build me a thousand ships
and a thousand ports with each dawn.
Remember to whisper "I love you"
to me for the millionth time.
Remember to chew the food
on my behalf in times of exhaustion.
Remember to arrange my priorities
in times of chaos.
Remember to mend my broken wings
after the battles.
Remember to admire the shape of my lips
and the window of my eyes.
Remember to embrace those little pink wishes
that fill my cheeks.
Remember to hold me in your hands
like a puzzle that has baffled the entire world.
Remember to remember all of this.
Amirah
Al Wassif is an award-winning published poet. Her poetry collection,
For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate, was
published in February 2019 by Poetic Justice Books & Arts.
Her illustrated children’s book, The Cocoa Boy and Other Stories
was published in February 2020. Her poetry book, How
to bury a curious girl, was published by Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Company in 2022. Her
poems have appeared in several print and online publications,
including South Florida Poetry, Birmingham Arts Journal, Hawaii
Review, The Meniscus, Chiron Review, The Hunger, Writers Resist, Right Now,
Reckoning, New Welsh, Event Magazine,
and many others. Her
latest book, The Rules of Blind Obedience, was released in December
2024.
Cindy Rosmus originally hails
from the Ironbound section of
Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like
Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night
Fever. Her
noir/horror/bizarro stories have been published in the coolest places, such
as Shotgun Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The
Rye Whiskey Review, Under the Bleachers, and Rock and a
Hard Place. She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama.
She’s published seven collections of short stories. Cindy is a
Gemini, a Christian, and an animal rights advocate. She has recently
branched out into photo illustration.
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