Place Your Bets
at the start, it was to be competitor
choose only one corridor
or not to be there, or nowhere
and lose all what we plan for
who knows at the arrival maybe
there will be a seat to acquire
to bet on the right card you had to be vampire
to be nearby… in a paranoia
at two fingers to dive in the phobia
let’s be in a new world order
Never mind if it's led by a lobby
law is under the dictate of somebody
there will be no more 3rd War or Star War
to be or not to be will be the reason for to be
neither a state nor one politician
nor a future fighter like Martian
even well equipped or authoritarian
has believed it will be this question.
to be contemporary laic and lay
even communist or even gay
all united for not to be like
those whose religion prevents desire
from the priest to the traitor
no one will be neutral
some have understood
direction east they took
and started acting by fire
direction south-east they took
it’s there we have to light the pyre?
Copyright © Jamal Benbrahmi | Year Posted 2020
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