Wednesday, January 22, 2003

The Memory of Me

I stop and look back;
There is nothing anymore ahead of me.

I stoop into the abyss of my memory,
Out of boredom.

I repeat myself, in endless tautologies,
I talk, but am tired of hearing my voice.

And they rush onto me
In heaps of illusion
Of a semblance of a reality that was.

And they hurl onto me
Their perfumed corpses
And seduce me with my own name.

And I cry.

It is not me that cries,
For I, too, have died.
It is the memory of me.

© Copyright 2003 Obeida Sidani

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice, ifti3aliyyé, overly complicated, theoretical and
studied.

Ton frère Ahmad