Qussai's+Poetry

**Open Up Your Eyes Your Eyes You'll See**
Open up your eyes you'll see – The immense skies that cloak the seas, the vast fields filled with blossoming greens, the mysteries in the oceans, and ripples of water, along a wave-washed beach.

Open up your eyes you'll see – joy, hope, happiness, dreams, but when you squint you will find – what lies inside, what lies deep, sorrow, pain, injustice, grief.

Open up your eyes you'll see – a path ahead to a world – where you can be, where you can rise, a place that you will find, only if you open up your eyes.

**Based on the song “Lost!” by Coldplay** Just because your shirt got ripped, doesn’t mean it can’t get fixed.

Just because you fell, doesn’t mean it can’t get fixed.

Just because the sun set, doesn’t mean it will never rise.

Just because you failed once, doesn’t mean you will never succeed.

Just because penguins can’t fly, doesn’t mean they want to.

Just because someone seems happy, doesn’t mean they are.

Just because you’re leaving, doesn’t mean you will never come back.

Just because you can hate, doesn’t mean you can’t love.

** Gramma’s House **
**Based on “Knoxville, Tennessee” by Nikki Giovanni**

The house of my childhood. Dusty, old– orange pages in thick books.

As ancient as the Versailles. Pictures, memories, card games, tea in the afternoon, and lemonade in hot summer days.

I slide down the stairs, like a kid slides down a slide, to see my gramma knitting– in the now resting, once alive fortress– where the wind used to sing.

At the end of the day we sit and watch the sun go down– as the light reflects down her wrinkling, loving face, while the blazing sun’s rays through the windows leak, retreating down the rolling valleys.

**I Want to Do the Impossible**
I want to walk on deep water

I want to drink the burning lava

I want to fly with the passing birds

I want to sprint to the end of the world

I want to jump to meet the farthest star

I want to slide on freezing glaciers through mountains

I want to hide under the shadow of the brilliant sun

I want to surf on tsunamis

I want to ride the mightiest tornado

I want to sleep in the loneliest cave

I want to rest in the most sequestering nest

I want to fall from the highest tower to the still streets

I want to solve the mysteries of the Mona Lisa

I want to carve my name on stone

I want to do the impossible, to show the world that nothing can step in my way.

I am determined– and I know that I can do the undoable.

** Everything Fades **
Everything fades like sugar in a tea cup but footsteps remain.

** Atticus ** Wise, committed, calm stands up for what he believes. A deep rooted tree.

** Scout and Jem ** Innocent, naive, young newborn Mockingbirds that sing– away from hunters' eyes.