So many people in this poem	

Here I am walking through the streets covered with oppressive silence
Under a sun that consumes its trees
Nothing on the asphalt
Just traces of the remnants of fusible dreams
Yes,
When nothing but worry fills your bags
boarding the bus
will be very difficult, completely like getting off it
......

Believe me
I was about to write a poem about you
But the neighbours that separate me from them are a slanted question mark
I heard them whisper = she is destroying the time in his watches=
The pedestrians I walked by on the edges of my heart near them
I heard them whisper=why doesn’t she use the side roads, shorter, more mysterious, and
darker? =
The bus driver who looked at me out of the corner of his eye,
turns to the side of the window to whisper = every day, every day, when will Sunday come?=
I am between being and I can’t
I get stuck in their crowd and your absence
And the day was like a sudden slap,
elapsed.


Faleeha Hassan is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, and playwright born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, who now lives in the United States. Faleeha was the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. She received her master's degree in Arabic literature, and has now published 26 books, her poems have been translated into English, Turkmen, Bosnian, Indian, French, Italian, German, Kurdish, Spain, Korean, Greek, Serbia, Albanian, Pakistani, Romanian, Malayalam, Chinese, ODIA, Nepali and Macedonian language. She is a Pulitzer Prize Nominee for 2018, and a Pushcart Prize Nominee for 2019. She's a member of the International Writers and Artists Association. Winner of the Women of Excellence Inspiration award from SJ magazine 2020, and the Winner of the Grand Jury Award (the Sahitto International Award for Literature 2021). She served on the Women of Excellence selection committees for 2023, was a winner of a Women In The Arts award in 2023 and a Member of Who's Who in America 2023. She's on the Sahitto Award's judging panel for 2023 and a cultural ambassador between Iraq and the US.