GIGI MEJRI

 

Farewell

 

Oh! my tree with the frilled costume

And sweet tickling perfume

Since you unveiled your beauty

My life resumed its glee

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Your height anchored my eyes

And hope allied with my days

Time rode quiet and smooth

For moaning wounds to soothe

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Black pitched from my thought

Dissolved and turned rosy

Pink spread itself with no alloy

And spring sprang with no fault

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The sun cupped my all

And I shone by night.

My cup half-full

Smiled with delight

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Clouds bid farewell,

Poured their heart

Into streams on the ground

For more brighter days.

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2

 

Living twice

Between my feelings

Thoughts and words

I sensed conspiracy

Then the private

Was dragged.

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I became a reader

Lagging behind

An intimacy

Turned public, for you and for me

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And I allowed the mind

To toss the dice,

And again

I felt the imagery and lived twice

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I saw released feelings

In harmony

hugging a deferred dream

That became true

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And I enjoyed the scene

Of a shared poem

That no more

Belongs to me.

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3

 

What's Going On?

In my dreams, I saw a school library

under lock and key.

A teacher hiding behind

a knee-length tree,

staring at kids wearing in hippie.

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I saw a devil bumping in a ring,

I saw a poster reading:

"Hope renewal with rifle and gun"

A riot, a queer sight.

All under siege!

****

I saw a kid holding a rifle,

shouting "revenge, revenge "

I saw two deputies on a see-saw

chatting, taking a selfie!

I saw Law deserting the constituency

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I saw streets boiling, seething with skulls

And a little girl playing "Hang Man"

Drained bodies swinging, bubbles overhead

I read: "victims of insecurity"

I saw a mess!

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I saw people carrying chains

sweating, bleeding, bleating

"terror is agonizing, agony is terrifying"

Then the crowd started beating the drum,

spluttering, stuttering, beating about the bush:

hush! hush!

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I saw a mess! A wolf's soliloquy

A herd barking and babies

swaddled in white crying

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I woke up in sweat, short of breath

moaning: what's going on? What's going on?

Is it a dream or reality?????

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Gigi Mejri ©©

 

GIGI MEJRI