My mom’s cookies
Ingredients:
“All kind of flour, some dates, a bit of oil, cardamom, splash of water, and pinch of sugar”
How to make it:
If all the women in the world were gathered, not one could make what my mother used to make.
And she was….
Spread the ground
To bless the wheat grains, it becomes a breeze,
To the dates to become a deliciousness is created
To the oil, it writhes like a sea foetus
To cardamom pods, they dance in the heart of the mortar like silk atoms
when it matures, the sugar is sprinkled, warmth fills, the light glows,
She takes it out while repeating:
– O mother and father, this is for you, so eat well and wholesomely
Quietly they come,
Like the smell of Gardenia, they fill the house with their smell,
In 2006
They took her with them
my mom
The house collapsed
Orphans filled my bed
And
like the earth falling onto the earth, my father died.
By Faleeha Hassan