Trial & Error: My Youth Has Taught That Life Is a Series of Trials and Errors

By Rania Al Zohiry

Sometimes we’re so caught up in surviving, trying to make it to the next day in one piece, that we tend to forget what it was to actually live. Through all the grief, euphoria and woes of existence, we have found peace in incessant chaos. Like the spilt ink on once empty papers, we too have taught our feet to dance in between the shallow expectations and narrow lines of humankind. These pages hide the inconsistent words that mirror the uncertainties and instability of living.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Dec 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669885221

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Indifferent

Concealed behind the deceiving ecstasy of emotions

A figure lay on a field of ice, too somnolent

to notice the bitterness of the indifferent moon

Apathetic of a world forcing exuberance;

desperate to appear aesthetically pleasing the blissfully ignorant

to the emptiness in my heart; in a place that feels too much I feel too little

She Was Curious

She has the world at the tip of her fingers

With every breath she takes,

petals of rich scarlet roses fall, blushing crimson upon the viridescent field of vast mother nature

Bare feet traced the cracked lines of earth, blindly following the growing desire of her forever giving heart

Amber eyes searching for hidden gems and golden hues, uncovering the enraptured art, gifted by the soft hands of grace, tirelessly shading cerulean oceans and emerald green forests

She was curious and unafraid

Delicately tracing the outlines of her dreams,

And carving her name against the craft of nature

motions of galaxies, asteroids and stars etched the wonders of her mind

She lay in bed yearning for the taste of the bliss they called life,

Eyes closed, dreaming of all the places she could mark

Eyes closed, dreaming of all the wondrous laughter she would experience

Eyes closed, she sketched the sun being circled by the glowing moon, and watched as the glowing moon was chased by the ever ending blossoming beauty she called home; and she dreamed. She dreamed of venturing every forged path in this world, she dreamed of being an astronaut just so she could see the tales and wonders of the moon and she dreamed of being able to admire the illuminating rays of the sun from that