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Fateful Horizon Yussra MT Ebrahim 1/4/2021 it was dawn my mind was gone I was sleeping soundly my consciousness had drifted in the night beyond my boundary untethered from my mortal vessel I expanded and I flew past fields and through clouds and that's when I knew what "me" refers to for though in flight I felt not the cold of night I was present in spacetime yet there was no me to sight in this mode in my dreams I am "input only" a being who can experience but not interact is that lonely? perhaps it would be so were this my sole mode however I awake and my mind returns to its abode so gliding through scenes in my dreams is freeing to not worry I've been seen and to do all the seeing and then alhamdulillah to gratefully return to behave as an agent to apply what I learn now it's evening and I wonder where my mind will go tonight and will You

Indifference and Other War Crimes Yussra MT Ebrahim 1/1/2021 When the Iraq War (as it’s called in the US) was unfolding, it seized the attention of the West, like it seized my attention and defined my childhood, shaping my very identity and my perception of the world, not just in that moment, but as an objective reality that didn’t seem capable of changing. But as more years pass since the end (as it’s called in the US) of the war, the difference between Americans and Iraqis regarding the lasting impact of the war, which took place on Iraqi soil, becomes disturbingly clear. The destruction of my homeland, as it was happening, at the very least felt central to the attention of everyone around me. But now it’s been reduced for most in the States to a nostalgic old punchline, a contested, controversial bit of trivia, an era left to misguided patriotic history buffs with a passion for weaponry, like the tools of genocide are collectibles. The rubble remains, yet to those whose votes and

Everything Matters Yussra MT Ebrahim 11/19/2020 If we think of our psyche or soul as running on sustenance, much like our body does, we can come to a few important conclusions… 1) We have control (at least partially) over the state of our spirit, how we feel and are as conscious beings. 2) Our thought patterns, and therefore our behaviors, are influenced by what we consume, not only physically, but spiritually. What we expose our mind to, the way we spend our time, serves to nourish or harm the wellbeing of our essence. Some days I feel lower in spirits than usual, more detached from myself, and I get this sense that the recent diet of my soul is to blame. When I consume anything that is in opposition to my goals, or even just removed from what I really care about, I begin to feel an internal dissonance, which manifests as apathy. Something as simple as seeing something wrong and not pausing to acknowledge it as wrong, even just internally, is enough to knock me off balance

New Coworker Yussra MT Ebrahim 12/17/2020 1) How do you tell your new coworker that you saw the sticker on his laptop, the one proudly proclaiming his allegiance to the same group responsible for the destruction of your homeland and the genocide of your people? 2) You don’t. 3) You go up to him and say hi.

Duality Yussra MT Ebrahim 10/10/2020 the cocoon is too quiet not much happens inside sure I am growing but also I hide yet the sky is too open too much could occur it doesn't feel safe it doesn't feel sure so what better compromise what more brilliant design could there be than to have night fall and sun shine? a time to cocoon by myself to revive and then sets the moon and I spring forth alive

Boxes Together Yussra MT Ebrahim 9/27/2020 faces in boxes appear on my screen each one a portal to a world unseen and my face on theirs appears as I speak from my words they get of my world a peek see me, my eyes plead learn me, know better theirs say the same thing write their own letter I read it, I do each one, I try to I dare not spurn it would not deny you from you all I ask is the same in kind I am not asking that you read my mind at least read my heart and know what you see in my face and box is not all of me you are in your box I am in my own boxes together together alone