Last night, I went to paradise;
O joy! O peace!
Serenity absorbed me;
By the youthful brook,
And a meadow undefiled.
My mind wandered off
To collect a basket of citrus;
Yellow like the falling sun.
But these didn’t satisfy me;
The spirit kept on longing!
Last night, I went to Misr;
What a wonder!
The immense Giza pyramids!
Also the greatest graveyard;
No doubt, Pharaohs didn’t die.
Last night, I stood on N’Djamena:
I blew the horn;
And gathered, were nations.
But I didn’t deliver my speech,
Because last night; I was asleep.
This Poem was published in the July 2019 edition of the WSA magazine. Please click here to download.
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