Posts Tagged ‘“Happiness is not my job”;’
List of articles from Apr. 25 to may 1, 2010
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 2, 2010
Martyrs for naught?
Concise Political Islam;
Promised Paradise way on Nahr Ibrahim (Lebanon); (Apr. 26, 2010)
Turn your life around; (Apr. 27, 2010)
“Happiness is not my job”; (Apr. 27, 2010)
Revisiting individual quality of life; (Apr. 28, 2010)
Time says: “My story of eagle and storm”; (Apr. 28, 2010)Paved decrepit path: Half-cooked literates trailing feudal process
; (May 1, 2010)
“Happiness is not my job”
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 27, 2010
“Happiness is not my job”;
Am I a redundant citizen?
So far, I was not killed in wars,
Civil wars, earthquakes, or road kill.
What now? What am I to do with my life?
Years ahead of me undulating
Unlimited sea to the pelican;
Is my future already traced
A duck drawn on a class board?
Am I to express my dreams in whisper
And groping around
Or am I to let my dreams run down
Rubber liquid, glue seeping off equatorial trees?
I am a crackling wall, I am crumbling
Masons, builders fetch a stone
Prop me up quick
Glacier warming up, clefting;
Let virgin forest fresh air in
My chest is compressed, poisoned in filth and despair;
I wish badly motherlands
Turnover as fast as nude dancers;
Crows swooping away
A pair of wings for a kingdom
I want to visit the dying
I want to turn time around
A child carelessly putting fire to his world
Years passed by
Didn’t play with a toy
Didn’t grab a blanket
Didn’t cry for a shattered land.
Note: A few images borrowed from the late Syrian poet Mohammad al Maghout.
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