Sunday, September 28, 2025

Silver Lining

A marathon of a drive
beyond mni wak’áŋ
across Dakota plains

The prize?
Your face
behind scratched plexiglass
And your voice
edged with static
close to my ear

Awkward at first
No privacy permitted
No touch
No breathing-in
the scent of sandalwood
on your body

But I will be satisfied, my love
with your face
and your voice

And hearing you impart
that in the bleakness
of all you’re enduring
I am your
silver lining



See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ October 20, 2024
Adnan and the Winged Heart
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ October 13, 2024
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ October 12, 2024
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ October 8, 2024
Summer’s End
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ September 21, 2024
Ghosts
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ June 27, 2024
Undeniably Real
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ March 1, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ February 21, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ February 7, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ January 16, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ December 3, 2023
October Afternoon
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ October 1, 2023
September Garden
Like a Lotus Flower
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ June 4, 2023
The Paradise We’ll Make
Undone
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ February 14, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ January 16, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ January 4, 2023
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ August 25, 2022
In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment
I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ November 25, 2021
Just One Wish
Blue Yonder
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ June 29, 2021
What We Crave
Where You Take Me
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ January 30, 2021
November Musings
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ November 18, 2020
Out and About ~ Spring 2020
The Landscape Is a Mirror
Adnan in Morning Light
It’s You
Family Time in Guruk . . . and Glimpses of Somaliland
Somalia Bound
My Love, “Return to the Root of the Root of Your Own Soul”
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ July 14, 2019
Adnan . . . Amidst Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green
Adnan . . . with Sunset Reflections and Jet Trail
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ April 16, 2019
Saaxiib Qurux Badan ~ March 29, 2019

Images: Michael J. Bayly.


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