Maha Azzam

“Here again, I follow a light
Because I want to end that night
Because I want to stop the hunger
Because I want to be much stronger
Because, all I ever dreamt to be
Is living a life of boredom free

I find my mind playing a game
To seduce a divine cloud of same
Ones that rain only on meadows
Those who bare no signs of sorrows

I sing and laugh, I dance and leap
I tell her stories of a past too deep
I study her well to know the way
To make her happy, to make her stay

But when she rains and I realize
That she is not what she once was
And that my land did not grow
A plant of love that I don’t know

I miss the sun, I miss the wind
And there this cloud’s story ends
No more dances, no more songs
There I count all her wrongs

“You have to leave,” I tell her why
she has to leave to free my sky
for other clouds, big and divine
will never wait nor stand in line

There again, I follow a light
Because I want to end that night
Because I want to stop the hunger
Because I want to be much stronger
Because, all I ever dreamt to be
Is living a life of boredom free”
― Nael Gharzeddine