The waves g o by without waiting
As the seconds of this life that keep going
Faster than anyone can imagine.
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The feeling is really not the same
To be confined in one daunting room
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Hafid Chahidi is a young Moroccan poet, freelance translator and scholar. He is currently pursuing his post-graduate studies at The King Fahd Advanced School of Translation and Interpreting; (Diplôme de Traducteur professionnel (Diploma in translation) " Master Program" combinaison linguistique: Arabe; Anglais; Français): in Tangier. He received his BA degree in English Studies (Majored in Linguistics) from IBN ZOHR University; Agadir-Morocco in 2014. He read one of his poems ‘This and Nothing more’, which is now accessible online, as a finalist in the Third edition of 100 thousand poets for change event organized in Agadir on September,2013. Some of his poems have been published by several online journals and magazines as ‘Morocco World News’ and ‘The Tunisian Tanit Boat of Poetry’ along with some other ones. He is considering his BA Monograph, entitled” The Impracticality of the tentative proposal to Dialectization/Colloquialization of the Moroccan Educational system”, for publication. His academic research areas are; Applied Linguistics, EFL education and Advanced Translation studies.)
The Cry Of Pain
Once upon a time
A woman stood still
In a long corridor in a hostel
Seemed very distraught
Thinking about her offspring;
She was weeping all the time
Not knowing what to do
Kept asking herself
Who can save my daughter‘s life!
The only one she has got in her life;
Seemingly; she shouted out of blue
Asking people; who were watching;
What to do!
Nobody gave a monkey’s to her appeal;
Once no one cared about her;
She just began praying to God
To bless her daughter’s soul
To forgive her daughter’s sins;
Alas! That mother in the long corridor
Whose tears have become as a river
That kept flowing
From an unknown source;
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