These are a selection of poems by Ayad Gharbawi. Wide-ranging poems in their purview on life and the choices facing Man. Persisting reminders tormenting awash with a dryness hurtful Punctured living waters Gruesome mental scars Uncertainties debilitating Dangling insanity Nooses chasing each other Thunderously exciting Festering gashes Here between myself Between us And so, what you felt Or whatever you feel for me I never fathomed what exactly was it