Friday 2 June 2017

The Ending Of A Season 21 Dec 2016

The ending of a season, a winter, frozen to the bones.
A thin curtain hides the world
outside the window, familiar, yet hard to guess what the day might have in store.
I have to watch the morning grow
from its slow awakening from slumber.
A disinfected, sanitized air, I cannot call it a scent, perfume or fragrance.

A meditative silence covers all
Prayers, pain, a submissive chant of pain,
a face of a haunting magnanimity,
curled up like a fist of endurance vaguely stirs in the mist,
waiting for the sunbeams to do their job.

A godly presence watches over all
the sorrows and the passing, melting
walls and borders.
I am a speck of dust
traveling upward,
a treacherous journey against the wind.
"Toutes les richesses du monde ne valent pas un instant de bonheur.
Tous les pouvoirs du monde ne valent pas un moment d'amour.
Toutes les puissances du monde ne valent pas un éclat de joie."

● Alain Merheb
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