Arab

ماجدة الرومى ولارا فابيان حبــيبــى

فرانك سيناترا

حبيبي يا نور العين

History has been
.....stage-managed
by simian gods,
.....manipulated apes
made clay, placed
in the hands of potty screenwriters,
spinners of illusions.
Be wary of their bite.
Be wary of their bite.

You eat from the plates
of their disgrace.
You drink from the crockery
of their crookedness.

It's plainly witless
.....to sip their piss.
No use! No use!
The dumb-fucks think
it's freshly squeezed
.....orange juice.

Keep your private pasts close and closed
to the intrusions of the
rapacious state.
Slam your doors in the face
of the information whores.
Keep your secrets secret.

These days I prefer
the immediate tomorrows.
They are real, vibrant-
not filmed
by the fix of any flix.
They promise proper death-
.....exactly that,
.....no word of a lie.
No subscription required.

In this experiencing of
the 'now'
of grey pain depreciation
.....I find
I don't like people enough-
they've broken my trust,
as has the blood family.

What's left to appreciate?
.....I wait,
but still I meet
no angels from tomorrow.
Today and yesterday
have been filled with the
.....ill-willed,
the incompetent and the
.....thick.
They all purport to fly
but they have no wings.

The grossly put upon landscape that I drew
such solace from
.....is scarred
by vast heaps of their
.....broken bodies.
Some still writhing in
.....scary death throes
.....still fluttering.
Some with faint but bitter
.....final utterings,
faces drenched in despair.

Give us wings. They sing.
Please give us wings.
Give us human flight.
Give us wings.

Give us wings
to escape being apes-
the curse of endless night.

Wingless

WINGLESS

هل أراك سالمًا منعَّما وغانما مكرَّما ؟
 هل أراك في عُلاك تبلغ السّماك 

.. موْطِني موْطِني
الشباب لن يكلَّ، همُّه أن تستقِل أو يبيدْ
نستقي من الرّدَى ولن نكون للعِدى كالعبيدْ

لا نريد ذلَّنا المؤبَّدا وعَيشنا المنكَّدا
.. لا نريد بلْ نعيد، مجدنا التليدْ

راغب علامة نسيني الدنيا

khaled-albrahim

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