A Dash of Whimsy Series –
Walid Abdallah, an Egyptian poet and author, brings us some poetry to get lost in! Take some time this morning to take a look.
A candle in the wind
I am a candle in the wind
dancing happily, I pretend
I am always deep under pressure
Suffering from stress with no measure
In silence I always burn
How to survive I should learn
I always live to end others’ night
They think it’s my duty and their right
Nobody cares how I feel
Or cools my wounds that never heal
No dream in my life comes true
Because of winds that always blow
I burn for others’ happiness
I only get their carelessness
I don’t know for how long I should burn
For those who never care or concern
I gradually vanish for their sake
they squeeze my hear and break
I really can’t stand for long
To a place I never belong
I lost the love of my life as a whole
In a world with no substitute at all
She couldn’t stand in the wind with me
Left me in the storm and decided to flee
She took all the sense of life away
And left me in the wind lost and astray
I am half alive and half dead
I can’t bear what she just said
She left and took my heart with her
She never knew how much I care
We become strangers again
As she couldn’t bear the pain
I am a candle in the wind
Only sad sighs I can send
Dream
I always have a dream
Flowing into my veins like a stream
Throughout my life I wander about
Having deep faith to reach it, no doubt
I always keep it in my heart and mind
I am sure one day I will get it and find
I dream of a new world with no pain
A peaceful world, not insane
I dream of a world full of peace and love
Where birds never stop singing and fluttering above
I dream of a world where lovers never separate
Forever together united by fate
I dream of a world full of trees and flowers
Where love, peace and brotherhood its only powers
I dream all people in one language they all speak
Where love ties and peaceful relations never break
I dream the world becomes fair and just
Where wars and conflicts become a very far past
I dream all people have the same feelings
All people become true human beings
I hope my dream comes true one day
And “peace” becomes the only word people can say
A Conversation with Corona Virus 2020
Why have you come from nothingness?
I have come to cause death and sadness?
Why would you like to destroy and kill?
People trade in one another and sell
Why do you appear now?
To make savage people bow
Are you happy with causing pain?
You created me, I can’t explain
Do you know people hate your nature?
People invented every pain and torture
When will you leave us alone?
When I finish my job soon
Do you come to change destiny?
I come to eliminate every tyranny
Why do you kill the innocent?
Every war has victims’ percent
What do you really need?
I want to implant peace seed
What do you think you can really do?
I already stopped all the wars flow
What else can you do to impose quietness?
I made all people equal, I imposed fairness
Aren’t you afraid of America, China or England?
I already beat all their troops on every land
What about Germany, Russia and Italy?
They are nothing, I am the absolute reality
What is your final message?
Make peace your only passage
What is your final need?
To end your ego and greed
When will you show some mercy?
When good prevails, and evil must flee
I Will Stop Loving You
I will stop loving you
When the sun doesn’t shine
And dreams are no longer mine
When hopes run out
And volcanoes no longer shout
When all the oceans become dry
And you count all the stars in the sky
When all the trees’ leaves wither
And the earth has only one weather
When deserts blossom and flower
And waters of rivers become sour
When the colors of nature fade
And all trees lose their shade
When we have eternal day or night
And all people lose their sight
When the trees stop dancing in the wind
And the mountains collapse and bend
When rocks and stones cry
And cats and rabbits fly
When winds no longer blow
And waters in rivers and seas no longer flow
When ice and snow in the poles melt
And all living things become mud or silt
When I no longer breathe
And life has no air or breeze
I will stop loving you
When I am chosen by death
And your love gives me a new birth
If you were here
If you were here, life would smile
The desert would taste the Nile
Birds would never stop singing
The sun would never stop burning
Trees would blossom in the fall
Leaves would grow but never fall
My heartbeats would call your name
Each beat would never be the same
I would look at you and never blink
Into your deep heart I would sink
I would feel the warmth of your breath
Butterflies would never know death
Stars would happily dance in the sky
Mountain dew would never dry
The sun would never set
Trees would never be wet
Snow would never melt
Sorrow would never be felt
Joy would always dominate
The moon would never be late
The desert would be green
Sand would never be seen
Flowers would no longer wither
Day and night would be seen together
Storms would stop blowing
Rivers would never stop flowing
If you were here, in my arms so near
Life would stop orbiting only to hear
The heart that beats only for your sake
Promise me you will never break
My heart oasis
You are the oasis in my desert life
A ray of light in my eternal strife
The sun that always gives me hope and light
The dawn that finally shone after a long night
You grow dewy roses in my heart garden
You always lighten my heart heavy burden
You always give me a cause to live for
I promise I will love you more and more
You are the shade and shadow in my heart garden
You always give life to my feelings after they harden
Your smile cools and relieves my pain
You are my garden water and rain
You are the tree that protects me from life heat
You are the happy fate I always long to meet
Your touch gives me the breath I take
I enjoy the life you always make
You are the dream of my life as a whole
You are the leaves in my life that never fall
The flowers in my heart blossom on being together
Lilies grow on my heart wall and never wither
Water them with your true love that lasts forever
Dive deep in my heart, there is true love to discover
On Our First Date
On our first date
I race the time, can’t wait
I have a new feeling, a bit strange
offering you eternal love that will never change
You are the love I have always been looking for
You are the true love I have never felt before
In front of your eyes, I am speechless
Listen to my heartbeats as words can’t express
When reality has become better than fiction
And you are far more beautiful than every prediction
A princess straight from heaven you really are
I am holding a dream I have always thought very far
I am enthralled by your eyes and their magic
A time when I lose all my reason and logic
I drown into the deep sea of your eyes
Believe your heart, it never lies
You have become all the people I’d like to know
You are the secret of my happiness, you are the clue
Let’s start our love journey at forever
A journey of love that ends at never
You grow a rosy flower in my heart that never withers
You gave my hearts wings and feathers
I no longer live on earth
You gave me a love knows no death
I give you a promise that will never break
I am yours forever, I will always be there for your sake
My eyes no longer see but you
Only you paint my life and draw
Every new year and I am yours and you are mine
Every new year and we are lovers’ model and sign
Every new year and I love you again and again
Every new year and we are in love and will always remain
Every new year and you are all my flowers and trees
Every new year and you are all the air I breathe
Every new year and we are together
Every new year and we belong to each other
Artist:
Walid Abdallah is an Egyptian poet and author. He is a visiting professor of English language and literature in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the USA, his poetry includes “Go Ye Moon”, ” Dream” and “My heart still beats” And has several translated poems which won prestigious prizes in the USA like “Cause”, “Egypt’s Grief”, and “Strangers’ Cross”, his books include Shout of Silence, Escape to the Realm of Imagination, and Man Domination and Woman Emancipation.
