Category: Hope

Lighthouse

Forgotten

All alone

Doesn’t anyone

Remember

The past?

Forlorn

No more ships

No more need

Of lighthouse

Standing all alone

Waiting for one

Just one

Who needs to be taken

Taken

care

of

Pensive

How can we

Instill

In the souls of people

That extreme wealth

Can be as dangerous

As extreme poverty

They can both

Lead to extreme starvation

More or Less

Who has more

And more of

What

Do you want

More of what

You don’t have

or

Do you want

Less of what

You have

What is more

What is less

And what is it

That we still

Lack

Really

Beirut

Come to life Beirut

Sparkling Bright

Bubbling Sparks

All over the night

That’s it Beirut

Sparkle away

It’s time now

For you to

Shine once more

Take my hand Beirut

And I’ll take yours

Let’s dance in the Spring air

Breathe in Life once again

Beirut Dance

In the streets of Glory

Once Again

Why Dream?

I have a dream

that somehow

seems just right

for me

I have no intention

of letting go of

my dream

for if I do

I lose me

I lose hope

I lose my way

I try to light

the way for others, to never

let go of their dream

and if I find a sad heart ready to let go

I try to show the great importance

To “Hold Fast”

for without a dream, we are lost in time

Treasures

I think we might have a wrong idea about what a treasure is.

Let us take Garnets, beautiful in a ring or bracelet or necklace or ear rings;

but let us compare Treasures.

Open a pomegranate

Slice open

What do you see

Clusters of juicy, glistening garnets

that melt in your mouth before they reach.

Looking behind paper thin walls for so much splendour

Yes, I would say

We might have the wrong idea about what a treasure is.

Birds , my teachers

My teachers , birds

one stormy morning

I saw this lonely bird

flying to find

a shelter from the cold winds and rain and hail

and i felt a bit ashamed of myself

remembering how many times i complain about this or that

birds do not ask for help

but are self sufficient

they do not complain when life is hard

they persist

finding any way they can to survive

and through it all

they sing

and sing

I will try to learn from my great teachers,birds

My promise to me

I want to be

bubbly    light      and happy

I want to truly taste

the Beauty of Life

I want to feel

more happiness

then ever

before

in all aspects of life

I want to know

Beyond all Doubt

that whatever

I think

Whatever I want

I can Be

and

Have

One day at a time

The words one day at a time have taken on a different meaning for me. From the time as a child I used to sing that song, now with Covid-19

after months of lockdown total or partial I have come to appreciate what those words mean. Since March 2020, Time has donned rocket boosters and I do not know where almost one year went.

Sometimes I am aware of morning and then I turn around and it is sunset.

So I have rediscovered my childhood habit: Living in the  moment.

Will I succeed in hanging on to Time regardless of rocket boosters?