The last of November



The last of November.


What’s the point in being alive
When everything I have isn’t mine
It doesn’t matter that I’m eighty or five
When every time I’m held by a line

What really disappointed me
Is that happiness never came
What happiness really means to be ?
When all I get is permanent shame

Have you ever been so rejected
That loneliness became your life
And when your feelings are reflected
It doesn’t mean you found a wife…

Life always holds bad surprises
To those who think having a good time
To know that a dead man never rises
Have lost my poems their rhyme

Is death really my apology ?
When I’m seeking it everywhere
I can hear the dead calling me
And they seem to be happy there...


M.K. Ibn Hadj Kacem
November 30th 2010

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