Soufiane Bouchouachi
(Algeria)
“Life’s Ode”
Life is a candle ,
its wick is love and light is hope
The truth is a pearl which needs a smart diver
Unity is not to sit alone,
but to lose your lover
Happiness is sadness without lips
Failure is rocks in the aroma of reality
Hatred is flame burning in the heart of envious change it to ashes
Impossible is a word exists in a fools world
My wish
I wish, the Moon can hear me…
To tell him my stories.
I wish, the sea can understood my words…
to tell him about my dreams …
I wish the rain eases my sadness…
to sit under it to remove my pains …
What good , if there is nothing of my words can be realized …
From there I left
I quit leaving behind me a beautiful memories
I quit but I am still looking to that place
I do not want to quit that place
I left … taking with me
Groans … Concerns. Grief
hurting me as a Hurricane
Blues waiting for me … to kill my dreams everywhere I travel
I left.. Quitting everything with nice memory
I left and everything pushes me to refuse to leave
I remembered fate. I tried to tear my passport and throw it away
But fate forced me to leave
Really it was very acrimonious. That fate
Fates were slaughtering my dreams
and send Inconsistencies into INSIDE me
Conflicts appear within me
I live with her fates forced me to leave
I left from there taking memories of love
memories of childhood and the Beautiful place
I left but my dreams do not leave with me
There !! I am still embracing the past
Smiles … play … Conversations
Everything happens looks as just now is made in my heart
I tried to forget that … to forget the LEFT
with time more and more groans are growing
tears and voice of your leaving were growing up
Longings attract me to that Beautiful place
Oh… I am still waiting for returning to that place.
Loving you
I know that the way to the impossible is very long
I love you too much…
I know that time of missing you is over
And sweet words were died, what can I say!
Nothing to say
Nothing
I love you too much
I know that I live in a place and you in another
between me and you wind, cloud and lightning, thunder, snow and fire
I know, reaching to your eyes is just conceit
I know
reaching to your lips is a suicide
I feel very happy when I tear myself for you
my sweet
If they make me choose, I will choose you again
I know, I am sailing at your eye’s sea without attention
Leaving my wisdom behind me running toward my madness
Refusing to out from your love’s fire
What I do if I out from your love
It is not the matter if I out dead
I asked you:
Don’t leave me; I am NOTHING without you in my life
I love with four languages:
I love You
Je t’aime
Te quiero
Ti amo
I am the crazy lover
In short …
Stand up please
Now it is time to express frankly to each other’s
Stand up please
… You do not even know how boredom hurricane beats me,
when you are absent
for whom I complain on you ?
To the sun?
To humans?
And throughout nights, I cry when I miss looking to the moon
No… I swear on who created the hours and days and month
I’ll stand today with you to express frankly to each other’s
Stand and ask yourself
Who among us is dead?
Who among us is ill?
Who among us a spaniel??!!
Who among us for love is tending?
Me or you?
Stand please
And you every hour threat by separation
often you carry your travel bags
Who among us can resist this humiliation and oppression?
In the hour of purity
I put my hear on your shoulders
hurting, suffering, dreaming.
I love you
I love you with all love letters
And I RAIN you with love words.
as it rains on the ground
Stand please
This is my last word
I love you
In short .
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-Translator interpreter, poet, teacher