Saturday, July 4, 2020

Pandemic times of me 5_the forgotten ironing

Dear God
please let me have the best connection i could ever have with my daughter

i ask you that this connection grows and never falters and strengthens and never wilts

its really painful to lose connection with someone you love dearly
very frustrating and like the stop sign of your movement

this morning i received good news
only to be stopped signed by the ironing and torn tissues
you see its not seen what i do
it doesnt matter
it never reaches the heart
the disconnection is so real it makes me want to anguish in the predicted anger
shes always angry at me
shes always distrusting of me
shes always non believing in me

shes always out of love
with me
shes fine with others
she can conversate and laugh and ask and wonder and joke
but with me
shes always angry

and i find pain in knowing i am so similar to her and yet so enstranged from her
and that i will always love her and dont want to judge her but she
does judge me - severely
in fact her judgement is now so mountainous that my shoulders bleed
i hate ironing
thats all
and i think that being cool with kids is sometimes easy on the mind for both sides but discipline is also a part of me -
i also really like my work and like the person I am when i work but  then the dishes are never done from her perspective and so im a complete failure

but then
i must remember that her obstacles, other women have been employed with and her anger towards me is reasonable
our passions are just not the same
her role is also finished and mine has started but the merging is wrong between us
generation opposites and tradition v modernity can sometimes play with fire

she thinks and i think
i feel and she feels
im tired and shes tired
so there no room for understanding

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What it is...

I see Life like a rose in the ice... beautiful but with cold settings - There are so many incredible things out there - but we always need to fight and perservere against the hardships too... otherwise the cold will win ... and we will wither away.

My imagination has led me to believe in something called 'Sudan Fairytale' -
The fantasy that My country will one day be independant and proud, never selfsish to provide its people with its needs, give freedom and success to all, be forever committed to achieve a prosperous inhabitance to every Sudanese in their own country-

My eyes fail me and I see the truth which I call - 'Khartoum Heartbreak' - This is a theme running through the blog under the 'Khartoum Heartbreak' Poems and whatever else about Sudan conveying broken down love, poor streets and cut off electricity along with a lot of other decays and problems in Khartoum city Life.

But I love my country and so I have no choice but to merge the Pain and the Love as one.

Faith is my heart and I could never do without it hoping in my prayers that I can be someone better always and that God forgives me as I fall in Mistakes through that frozen path of Life...

Sometimes I feel under control with all the too many emotions that run to colour my days and nights - Books, movies, music, dreams, friends, family, strangers, travel, - reality - the 10 O' Clock news -Most of the time I'm very Lost in trying to understand - whatever happens becomes tangled into writing this confusing memoir -

It's a really odd combination of air - not sure whether it is refreshing or suffocating - stabilising or maddening - But I breathe and
so it is
'Memoirs of a Sudanese breath' as I am 'Lost but under control' -