Rafik Romdhani Poems

Your first face smiled to me
Soon your second one frowned
Your first face came out waggingly
The second like a cloud downed
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Oh life you tired me out
In taking this heart for a rock
On which you sunned like a beast
And grew your weeds of poison hemlock
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The dream is right
The dream is white
Ah aye aye aye!
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In love with the dark 'n with the light
Yapping gusts from the far South
Swishing to 'em the hem of the night
Blow and blowlike no other mouth
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Night obscures the day's eye
But is not enemy to dawns on the way
Birds' heads now asleep under their wings
See the full light of life in blindfolded skies
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In parliament

Everyone want to play the wolf
And everyone want to play the hunter
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Head, lean some more over the counter
People, like you, around you are burning inside now
'Cos hell won't burn all
Many things need repair
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Head, lean some more over the counter
People, like you, around you are burning inside now
'Cos hell won't burn all
Many things need repair
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Step by step in the abyss of revolution
The government struggles to be born
And we wait.
Donkey after donkey ate the constitution
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Where are your going in your dream
A bag of colorless years on shoulders
But the eyes still stubborn and agleam
And seeing and seeing
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