Petals of Dust

Dust, from the endless windswept sands move in to live with you everywhere you go. It is not refreshing like flowers that brighten up your day when you simply look at them. Or select a few of them to decorate a bleak place in your abode. Dust is barren to look at. You decorate it just by being in the midst of it offering a place for it to rest to become an unwelcome visitor and later a community of squatters. It is everywhere and nowhere because it is not a novelty you can catch in your hand. You can blow it away to scatter and become a mess somewhere else. Flowers, however once they become loose on the vine or stem can be blown away too. As petals and seeds in some cases, they offer rebirth, the ability for new life to begin.

Dust does not offer that option. Except that dust begets dust, not life.

By Zakia Imam Shahbaz