Streets

We long to the physical places that make us who we are, and to our senses that mature within them. That’s how our view of the world gets to be formed, along with our view of ourselves. But if places establish for us pre-determined forms and approaches to the surrounding world, sometimes we instinctively seek other worlds and places that add to our collective identity a new dynamic and opportunities that pave the road to transformation and openness towards the “other.” The boundaries of the “other” constitute our boundaries, and the identity of the other falls right near the outskirts of our consciousness. Dealing with the “other” based on certain intellectual and physical properties that are attached to a mirror image of the absolute truth makes out us merely experimental-intellectual matters that establishes its own properties apart from the concepts of “time” and its manifestations. So if Streets constitute distorted situations in the context of our memory of what’s considered to be a “place,” “immediate time,” “history,” and “event,” then the effect of these situations was based on our childhood experiences and how our physical senses helped achieving realization and perception. At a time when intellectual properties tend to overwhelm us with how limited they are and how little they have to offer us, every “era” in time that we go through will have a different impact on the “self,” and thus the “self” becomes more and more scattered within itself, and the various contradicting contexts in the concepts of time and place will become scattered among themselves. As places impose on us a centralized and intellectual focal point that forces us to deal with our surroundings based on some rigid criteria, so are the “placiness.” As “time” impose certain aspects of how we determine our relationship with the “other,” and out “other,” so is the concept of timelessness.

This poetry collection attempts to express the spiritual conditions within the concepts of “time” and “place,” and timelessness” and “placiness.” In my opinion, this initiates an alternate role played by our perceptions and standards of what we consider humanity to reconstruct our memory and re-express ourselves while using new tools that go beyond to show the “areas” that already conceptually left behind the traditional tools of inspiration and the traditional creative forms. This poetic prose is an intensive expression of the place of the self, the time of the self within the time of placiness and place of timelessness.