Hot moon over Khassab

(Written at 18:20 on 05 Sept 2006 in Musandam, Khassab, Sultanate of Oman)

Open your arms
Embrace the bulk
of these rocky mountains
Silence blows ears of deafness
With the moon burning like ambers
in your skin in the night

Open your arms
Embrace a new day out
of nothing
Getting rid of my emotions
and baggage
of rage, pain and garbage
That weighed down my spirit and age.

Open your arms
Uplift, display, genuflect
rousing soul soarers
And deflect the clean, concise
nature of each sliver
Of rocks growing from the bowels
of this humid Omani wild.