Rosary and the Moon

Rahaf Al-Mawed
2 min readJan 28, 2024

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View of Dresden by Moonlight - Johan Christian Dahl (1839)

As free as you appear to be, you are still confined. Though my vision is in a fainting process, I can still woefully see your shackles. Sea of liberty, I have always thought of you in an ennobling light. How deceptive you are- you, who bears no sole identity. Willfully you broke the promise, and for that, I could no longer trust your embracive waves. Ominous yet silent, you were my betraying dagger.

My darling lune, I sacrificed my sight only for you to choose blindness. Your inconsistency makes me behold beauty in all your stages still, but ceases me from allowing your name to partake itself in my solemnities.

Illuminating Waxing Gibbous

Blackest shadow taken away

A witness bearing sight

Gouging eyes, I see

A rough, white space takes place

Dim, unpleasant

Strands could not extend

Could not reach to the ascended sphere

Stolen rosary, indictment ready

Years and years

Decades fearing

I could not pray

Disconnected

Beads grew smaller and gaunt

Until they separated

There is no more power

Not over me

Dearest Rosary,

The neck that wrapped you around seems to not understand your worth.

Heretic!

Burn the witch!

No baptism can save you now

Blood holy water

Marks the skin that sought it

As you have

I wish you could find your way back to me, but home is no longer yours. It seems that the wandering streets cannot even welcome the sealing of your void. There is no occupying place left for you in the world. I know not if my hand should have clutched you harder or whether your vehement moment of escape was a revelation I should’ve prophesized.

This eternal partition shalt never see the light again.

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Rahaf Al-Mawed
Rahaf Al-Mawed

Written by Rahaf Al-Mawed

A writer with a perennial and perseverant quill.

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