| by dina hassan | |
| Published on: Aug 19, 2005 | |
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| Type: Poetry | |
| https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=6063 | |
| In the darkest of darkest hours, In the hour before the crack of dawn I have set my sail and traveled On the journey back home I have sailed in different seas And crossed so many distant lands I have read in the book of life A book that was passed into my hands I have drifted from the valley of darkness So as to bathe in the eastern sun And I recalled from the heart of my weariness The battles I have lost and won I have come to dream of a better day To begin yet another story I have come to rise with the rising sun In the land of never-ending glory My ship has sailed into the River Nile And there it sailed no more For now I can finally unburden my load So I stood and came ashore I have come from a world that has lost its grace I carried a legacy of ageless defeat I ran in a world that ran in a different pace Yet, I hoped not to forfeit I came with the promise of release From past pains and wounds And thought that the chapter of my anguish May, in this land, concludes I came and stood in the heart of the desert, In the middle of nowhere And as my eyes traveled across past glories I saw the pain that we still share I was standing on the threshold Between two different realms, I stood As I groped with the past and its demons, Myself, I barely understood Come what may, The dream shall attack the kingdom of my heart And I will watch the veins surrender As they drift the gates apart Come what may, A fourth pyramid will be build One stone upon a stone This land will end the endless years I will no longer roam And though the wings of the birds are broken There will be a time when they will soar And though the dream has been long stifled It will spring once again and forever more And we will walk again that dusky road And we will be able to pursue The walking of another day, The glow of morning dew « return. |
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