Al-Sehemy House , Cairo
My dear friends did their best to translate my last post from arabic to english , and google failed miserably .. and I must say it is a daunting task to translate the egyptian light hearted dialect into english or even to any other arabic dialect .. I did my best to carry the mood and the sentiment into this translation …
The background to this post is the chaotic pathetic political scene in Egypt nowadays, a shabby referendum on a hastily cooked constitution and a hesitant president who seems to cancel his own decisions as fast as he make them .. Lolo for me is answer to all of this … Tomorrow is hers …
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TarekOfCairo
العنوان من اختيار لولو … وانا بقرأ لها فجأة وقفتنا وقلتلي ” هوا ايه اللي جاب الدستور هنا؟” … وعجبي
The colour of blood
Is all red …
Spilled screaming
on our dawn
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The flesh of burnt pride
Is all the same
Like the smell of hate
We both exhale
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The chasm of void
Between us deeper
Than my stupidity
and your cruelty
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your fingers hold mine
On the same knife
that stabbed us
into the same fate
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Just as we were tortured
In the same jail that wore our graffiti
not so long, remember
if you dare
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If we survived today
we will lie flat black eyed
Stretched on the cold asphalt
Facing the same blue sky
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And if we die
We will hug each other
Stacked in the same grave
Peacefully gone ,
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If love fails to unite us
today, Like every other day
In the history of shame
We are wastefully done
Just the same ..
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TarekOfCairo
TarekOfCairo