Jihene Khammassi Poems

Was I a subject of your desire?
A mixture of cold madness and melting fire?
What a hybrid satire!
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Filthy sadness
Piercing Anguish
Into madness
Cannot but relinquish
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I lighted candles,
Burnt incence,
And waited for you.
I took my needles
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In its emptied world
sat my self
on the verge of death,
on the edge of illness.
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My mind is sinking in ardent illusion! ?
breaking the status quo and its profusion
Seemed vital, then became a sheer delusion.
How could I have drawn such a conclusion,
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Black cats
Dark streets
A lone shadow
In silence fleets
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Will you give me a goodbye kiss
and wish me God's protection and bless?
Will you offer me some red flowers
and wait with me seconds and hours?
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Amidst the tormenting turmoil of thy love
I am but a wandering, wingless dove.
The powers of the trucks emasculate my hopes.
A haunting image! Thee grab my focus.
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