Hamlet
A lonely ghost loomed out
of the unknown mystery,
Bringing a halt to darkness
and showing life in misery.
Hamlet was told
but there was no reason to be cold,
This is a confession that is old,
what is gilded cannot be gold.
For those seen as heroes
in the tarnished human history,
are nothing but condemned
on the cess of lofty mastery.
* * *
Hamlet was mad,
truth is a man
whose head is bald,
Hamlet was sad,
illusion is a woman
that nods to be sold.
It is respect that
generates respect,
Humans are in February;
No wonder the proper study
of Mankind lies in January.
Being their tamed slaves,
what should we do but scold?
So cold is the heat,
so dry is the feast,
no fire is to hold.
* * *
Birds are weeping,
freedom is dying,
life is in boundary;
Flowers are fading,
trees are shambling,
O devine mastery.
Chokri Omri
Tunis, 2006
Copyright © Chokri Omri | Year Posted 2012
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