Limelight

Standing in the limelight, 
with a lemon 
that life 
lent me. 

Now sipping on lemonade,
from a straw 
that sat 
between sanguine lips,
taking slow and steady sips. 

Tasting 
the tasteless tension, 
that tugs upon 
tense heart strings.

Dreading
the dire drama, 
that demands 
to be dealt with.

Wanting, waiting, 
and wishing 
wishes would 
awaken. 

But,
I go back to 

standing in the limelight, 
with a lemon 
that life 
lent me. 

Sipping on lemonade,
from a straw 
that sat 
between sanguine lips. 

Taking
Slow, 
and steady 
sips.

Shoug Alsayegh is a twenty-six-year-old Emirati with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s in education. She derives her source of inspiration from her experience with life. She believes in writing to be her time machine leading her to write her hope for the future and to revisit her past.