coming of age is not a complicated undertakng as some would like to claim, not it is a grand scheme that forges one’s path to higher awareness of the surrounding around.. No, I hereby confess to you that growing up is not about gaining knowledge about the world, history or philosophy.
Coming of age is realizing the insignificance of your being.
okay that is still an abstract definition with no solid examples or wider elaborations. That being said, im going to attempto to clarify more.
I had a dream last night
it was a bad dream
a nightmare-they call it
i had a bad dream because i died in it.
maybe it was just a dream not a nightmare.
then i saw people that i knew cry.
and it was heartworming
then the sun set, and rose the next morning
my mom watered her plants
Fairuz sang at 7am
and the wind shook the leaves then rustled with the mail we had on the threshold that have fell from the door’s handle because we don’t have a mailbox.
i died and yet the mail swirled in the air
landing not far from the door to be picked up later by my dad who went outside for the morning cigarrette.
AICHA BINT YUSIF 