After Midnight Long Poem by MOHAMMAD SKATI

All stray dogs are howling
All night long chasing unknown people
Here and there...
It is not raining outside, but
It is all dark...
I am alone hearing those dogs' howling
Without moving a hair's breadth...
No one cares about those people
Who are running in front of
Those stray and hungry dogs...
Life comes to an absolute standstill
After midnight except with those
Coffeehouses that are scattered
Here and there...
All midnight's people are usually
Singles or divorced people
Who can not stay home at all...
Stray dogs like to chase anything
Ahead of them especially human beings
Simply because they want to show their muscles...
Sad people are anywhere and everywhere
Simply because of that on-going infighting...
Graveyards are filled with
A lot of newly-buried fighters and mercenaries
Who came just to kill for nothing,
But to get paid in US dollars...
This on-going infighting keeps rounding up
A lot of innocent people including little infants...
Life is lifeless, scary, absurd, and meaningless
With what's going around...
Everything goes gloomy, sad, and
Even melancholic...
All wars are meaningless and absurd, but
Not to arms-traders and warmongers...
It is all sad and gloomy
With everyone and with everything...
One day a new dawn will be in there
For those are displaced or
For those who left their destroyed homes
For those unknown destinations...
The Rock of Suicide is still there
In its place waiting endlessly for
All of those who left a long time ago...
Tomorrow will be better with those people
Who are still waiting for a new hope...
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