{"id":43555,"date":"2026-03-24T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=43555"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:51:51","slug":"when-the-rose-ignited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=43555","title":{"rendered":"When the Rose Ignited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was not a rose\u2014<\/span>
\nit was a spark<\/span>
\nslipping from your fingertips<\/span>
\ninto my chest\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

The moment it touched my skin,<\/span>
\nI ignited\u2026<\/span>
\nnot a fire seen,<\/span>
\nbut a flame<\/span>
\ndwelling in bone.<\/span><\/p>\n

You carved it\u2014<\/span>
\nnot as ornament,<\/span>
\nbut as destiny,<\/span>
\na mark that cannot fade\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then,<\/span>
\nmy heart is no longer a heart,<\/span>
\nbut a furnace\u2014<\/span>
\nwhenever I remember you,<\/span>
\nit glows,<\/span>
\nwhenever I long,<\/span>
\nit burns deeper\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Your petals are not red\u2014<\/span>
\nthey are embers,<\/span>
\neach one falling inside me<\/span>
\nigniting a thousand pulses,<\/span>
\na thousand tremors\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

You said: \u201cGood morning\u201d<\/strong><\/span>
\nand morning exploded within me,<\/span>
\nas if the sun<\/span>
\nrose from between my ribs<\/strong>,<\/span>
\nnot from the sky\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

And there\u2014<\/span>
\nin my deepest place\u2014<\/span>
\nwhere no sound lives but your breath,<\/span>
\nand no light but your name\u2014<\/span>
\nthe rose keeps burning,<\/span>
\nand a golden heart<\/span>
\nmelts from the weight of love\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I swear\u2014<\/span>
\nI no longer know<\/span>
\nwhether I live by you\u2026<\/span>
\nor burn within you,<\/span><\/p>\n

But I know this\u2014<\/span>
\nwhen you carved your rose,<\/span>
\nyou did not adorn my chest\u2026<\/span>
\nyou claimed it in fire<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

You\u2014<\/span>
\nmy faith that cannot be explained,<\/span>
\nmy rose that resembles no other\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever I call your name,<\/span>
\nit blossoms within me<\/span>
\nlike destiny<\/span>
\nwritten in fragrance and fire\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

You are\u2014<\/span>
\nthe very Rose<\/strong>,<\/span>
\nnot a word to be spoken,<\/span>
\nbut a fate to be lived.<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgive me\u2026<\/span>
\nI could not restrain my feelings<\/span>
\nwhen the rose intoxicated me\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

So I began to feel\u2014<\/span>
\nwithout awareness\u2014<\/span>
\nand when I awoke,<\/span>
\nI could not bear<\/span>
\nto tear my poem apart\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Because it was not merely words\u2014<\/span>
\nit was\u2026<\/span>
\nthe very Rose<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe   It was not a rose\u2014 it was a spark slipping from your fingertips into my chest\u2014 The moment it touched my skin, I ignited\u2026 not a fire seen, but a flame dwelling in bone. You carved it\u2014 not as ornament, but as destiny, a mark that cannot fade\u2026 Since then, my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,388],"tags":[23082,23081,2726],"class_list":["post-43555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editor","category-slide","tag-ignited","tag-the-rose","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43706,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions\/43706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}