Unattainable, too burnt out,
Unbeatable, too well thought out,
Conceived by a celestial to our eyes veiled,
The sun cut off, by our dreams brushed,
Interspersed, so that our muse told,
It illuminates our words, our verses, our dances,
under this torn sun.
Stable it is, this sun, yet scorched,
We stand in awe, enchanted.
I want to penetrate it without burning myself,
just to touch my dreams, to leave them hollow,
the vast plain of an empty land of height, chopped up,
nerved, cut, barbarous, violently torn.
Sun found,
of these lives, in written hands,
these tears of offspring,
these children's dreams,
spat out,
in words spoken,
in deaths perpetrated,
the sun burned on this spilt blood,
and yet the sun shone and remained.
He filmed the murdered as witnesses,
witnessing their murderers, it tore itself apart,
and burnt these holy lands,
inhabited by so much fear,
of a populace shaken by extremists,
bred by the very people who preach freedom.
The sun flowed,
in lava expressed itself, in suave said:
“Stop killing each other, learn to appreciate me,
To love each other, to send each other words,
Not projectiles,
Of your hatred poured out, thinly veiled, under your eyelashes,
You show it.”
The sun cut off,
by our verses gathered,
in one piece reassembled,
unified, singing the day,
it oozed
on this winter earth and burnt it,
burned it, lit it and said :
“Wake up and live,
get up and look”
This sun that in the distance seems to be setting,
And yet from distant horizons it continues to illuminate.
© Moustapha Chein,
Montréal
07 novembre 2023





