Failure

When all the world is silent, I am able to hear you across time and space. You loved words, and you loved old Arabic poetry. Most people didn’t. I couldn’t write what I wanted to express in Arabic, and that’s when I realized language fails me, but worse, I have failed language. And I have failed you- the ultimate tragedy. The Stars surround me, and there’s a vast hole in the sky, in the shape of you.