GIGI MEJRI

GIGI MEJRI

THE POWER OF THE WORD

A word is magical, a word is musical

A word is a whole world!

When sweet, you dance at its beat

When sensitive, like a harp

You respond to its tiniest tap

When cold and indifferent

Like a sword, it stabs without being heard

When encouraging, it fills you up to open horizons

A single word lifts you up, demolishes

Immolates, destroys, reconstructs

Tears up, mends, crumbles, cheers up

Pushes, pulls back!

It shakes, it takes years away!

It praises, it scolds, it takes with no pay!

A word is a tribute, it’s a melody, and it’s a dispute!

When unwise, a word can unveil your disguise

But a sweet word never wears out the tongue

A NOTE TO MY DARLING

I have been waiting for two long days

Under the scorching sun

No single sign in the horizon

No breeze, no waving, no cuddling

All was terribly still

And the deafening silence made me ill !

I missed your comb waving my hair

And your magic powder wrinkling my face

I missed your hand dressing me in lace

Every now and then!

I missed your whisper and your anger

For the desert and stillness don't go hand in hand!

Call your Sirroco, your Levanter and your Simum

Wrap me with that golden veil

Dress me, undress me, flatten me, and disfigure me!

Plough me, sieve me, shake me and shape me !

Make of me those roses of sand!

Each holding a special brand

Dance on the top of my dunes

Bring your instruments and play your tunes!

I am the desert forever flirting with the wind

To feel each minute grain of my sand

Moving - lost in your whirl- to announce our wedding!

I missed you - Mr Wind - my Darling!

A LESSON FOR LIFE

Now that we are apart

And each one took a way

Now that our destinations diverged

Each of us has a word to say

Sometimes memories queue up in the mind

Then pass by

Whole scenes, spoken and unspoken language

Single words, a smile, a hello or a bye

Now I am a mere viewer, a proof- reader

Holding a correction pen, muttering

What if I used this word? What if I left no reply?

Where is the harm in saying "yes" instead of "no"?

How could I have said so and so?

And the pages of memories whirled past me

Taking a new form

And I read the new version simply to say

"How vast the difference is”!

And that difference could have made the difference!

And changed a whole world!

Now that we both turned the page, no haste, no rage

Let us be equipped with an eraser,

With the word and its antonym

Let us remember that every punish has a forgive

Every blame has praise and every sad can be glad!

Now that we are miles away, let us grasp the lesson

And accept the price to pay!

For looking back can break the neck!

GIGI MEJRI

City : tunis

Country: tunisia