You Are My Life

About this book

About standing on the edge of memory, and building houses of poetry.. This is no mere poetry collection; it is a long confession written in the ink of the soul, and a final attempt to mend the heartbreaks absence left behind. Ahmed Othman begins his journey from the painful zero point; from the moment the back broke with the departure of the father, the teacher, and the support. In "You Are My Life," we find ourselves before a poet who does not write to praise grief, but writes to escape it, asking with the tongue of a child lost in the crowd of his twenties: "How did you travel, father, with my passport with you?" The collection's tone progresses between the darkness of loss that makes the noon sun "dark," and the flashes of love appearing like a lifeline for a drowning man. The writer carries us from an elegy tearing the heart's core to delicate Egyptian vernacular poems flirting with hope, where "the Chinese Esoq" becomes a musical tune, and where the wounds of the past turn into a "portrait" exhibited in the gallery of life. This work is a natural human journey, addressing all who tasted the bitterness of loss and found no one to pat their shoulder.