Chokri Omri Poet Free verse

Here We Are

(( “Most of the enemies you have now
 are people you once helped in life.'' )) 

Here we are! 
The times are no longer the times ..
The places are no longer the places ..
And everything is not anymore the same ..

We offered them our trust;
They brandished their deception. 
We helped them; 
They let us down. 
We built ships to them .. 
In them they napped 
And further sneered at ..
They burned them afterward.

And the promises;
The good promises, 
That we kept nurturing ..
They caused to wither
And fade out ..

Here we are! 
And now should be now ..
Not later or maybe or it depends ..
Time has now come to fix it up. 

Chokri Omri 
(Regueb, Sidi Bouzid, 2022)

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