#WISHFORALAA II

For the thousands killed, for the tens of thousands imprisoned, for the one hundred million oppressed, give justice, give liberty, give freedom, Free Alaa, Free Egypt!

16.11.2022

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#WISHFORALAA I

That the caged will be free, together, prisoner and nation.

16.11.2022

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THE COSMIC SPHINX

The cosmos is a sphinx,

and there is no Oedipus

smart enough

to open the path

to deepest knowledge

past its guardian stare.

15.11.2022

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EUROPA

The deep abyss

beneath darker than space,

and above the ten-kilometer

weight of the ice shell,

slowly the great planet turns.

03.04.-15.11.2022

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ON THE EDGE OF TIME

It's a folly to dread the future,

it's a folly to lament the past,

the latter is gone beyond fixing,

the former the past is becoming.

There only one thing is to do

for you on the edge of time:

Live, and let the past in you live,

unmourned, cherished,

until you the past become,

unmourned and cherished.

15.11.2022

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TURNED TO DUST

Let it go,

let it go,

it has gone

already,

gone in flesh,

gone in flesh

and in hope

extinguished,

you are just

holding into a phantom,

holding into a phantom

of a dream turned dust,

let it go,

let it go,

let it rise

to light

as you

sink.

14.11.2022

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AWAY

 Away, in the darkness,

away from the night

into night.

Away, in darkness,

away, from night

to night.

14.11.2022

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JET STREAM

 Such bright days,

such warm days,

yet the wind

remembers

it's late autumn,

and comes in fury

all through day and night,

bends the trees,

scatters the last leaves

on brown earth,

chill winds

which cut to the bone

as your eyes & mind

bath in drenching

sunlight, moonlight.

13.11.2022

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SEASON OF DYING

Late is the hour,

brief the time

until midnight chimes,

and the waning Moon

in the crown dies,

as dies the season,

in grief entangled, in woe,

and the rotten branches

a deathbed make.

09.11.2022

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LUNAR SOLITUDE

The lunar seas

reflecting

in mind,

long cooled magma

crushed into

regolith.

09.-10.11.2022

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IS

 Life is

over.

10.11.2022

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THE END

There will

be no time

to slowly

savour

what is

being lost,

no prolonged

goodbyes.

All will

end in one moment

of regretful words

piercing your being.

Suddenly,

what was

is gone,

an open

grave

across existence,

waiting the funeral

of life that was.

09.11.2022

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AS THE END CREDITS ROLL

At the end,

there is only

that,

the end -

an unpenetrable

wall

of sheer dark

beyond time,

existence.

09.11.2022

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THE MOUTH IS SHUT FOR EVER

An end to the songs,

and an end to

the singer,

yet the silence

carries songs

more powerful

than those

you sang,

now silent.

08.11.2022

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THE LAURELS ARE ON OTHER BROWS THAN THINE

You were never set to

see it to the end, never

to gain the laurels,

the reward that is

knowing that all

in life is in perfect

state of completion,

standing on the still

shore of the uncrossable ocean

knowing there are no places

to reach and all days will be one;

no, always you were set to be

hurriedly left in that shallow

ditch, in the gloom

of the ageless November

as cold gripped the

land, with that cover

of frost-touched leaves

gathering falling snow;

always now on the way to

that great, glorious goal

reserved for others,

who stream by

your final

silence.

05.11.2022

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TO ROSA LIKSOM

 1

It was ok

to 'abandon Russians'

for over twenty years

to Putin's regime

until the war in

Ukraine,

so why should

it be wrong now?

No war in

Ukraine,

and no need

to save

Russians

from Putin,

am I correct?

2

Always beware

people who think

that those who

follow leaders

whose geopolitics

have now collided

with ours,

are in need

of being 'saved'

more than

we are.

Collaborators

are not

victims

in distress.

They are

the root

whose crown

the ruler is.

3

When you

and Netanyahu

are on the same side,

it's time to think

whether you

should be

involved.

Or do you

propose

a grand mission

to save Netanyahu's

own voters

from him?

As his victims

are clearly

below saving

to people

like you.

05.11.2022

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A POOR COUSIN TO SUMMER DAWN

A grim sort of morning,

overcast, exactly zero degrees

outside at 08.33.

But can you call

this slow emergence

of the landscape

from darkness

to gray, dim light

a morning?

You certainly

can't call it

a dawn.

But, technically,

it must be given

the courtesy

of being

considered a morning,

as much as a summer dawn,

just like

this existence

must be considered,

for lack

of a better term,

being alive.

05.11.2022

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ALWAYS MORE WORDS

There is little reason for words, now;

little excuse. The time of words

is over, and earlier, I presume,

than I, always late, noticed.

The words have bolted,

the words are dead,

denied resurrection.

Yet, here are words

to mark the passing

of words.

05.11.2022

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