To Be Or To Be Not In This World Anytime Poem by MOHAMMAD SKATI

Emptiness makes us down
Simply because that's the way
With it anytime, anywhere, and
Even everywhere
For many reasons which
We either know or
We totally ignore...
Those old streets and roads chase us
Anywhere and everywhere
Asking about our good and bad memories
Which we enjoyed together...
Fares' Swimming pool was one of those
Good memories which we have enjoyed
Together when our late dad used to accompany us
To train us how to swim well...
No one can ignore those pretty memories
Which we have enjoyed together
Except those who are not raised well...
We have enjoyed our narrow alleys
Whereas we used to sit together eating
Roasted sunflower seeds and peanuts...
We have enjoyed sitting opposite
To that pretty Mediterranean Sea
Near Rashou and Al-Asafiri restaurants...
We used to stroll
Together here and there
Looking for a pretty place
To sit beside like that
Pretty Rock of Suicide...
Our old memories were greatly lovely,
Great, and wonderful, but
We used to have that great emptiness
Inside us for many and many reasons...
Everything was fabulous before
Something happened and
Changed everything considerably...
It is difficult to remember old things
Without coming into that emptiness
That was inside us...
Lovely things go quickly
Simply because that's the way
With them anytime, anywhere, and everywhere...
Old memories stir a lot of things
Inside us just to remind us
Of many things we kept them
Inside us for long time...
Our old streets,
Our old memories,
Our loved-ones who passed away,
Our school days,
Our childhood,
Our good and bad days,
Our difficult emptiness which
We have suffered from, and
A lot of other things are, but
Normal stations in our whole life
From our cradle in our graves...
We can not avoid our fates
Simply because that's the way
With our whole life...
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