Tunis
When,
On an equal footing,
Sadness is fought
And happiness sought
With both solitary
And collective spirits
And based on shared
Love and understanding,
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Beauty and Truth
Will certainly transpire.
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They say
‘We live,
As we dream,
Alone’
And I say
We live
With our dreams
Together.
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‘It is my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.’
To live means to be aware
And take time to see and care.
To live is to apprehend and forgive.
To live means to share,
Open windows, appreciate,
Love, understand and perceive.
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Endear yourself, dear friend,
Seek out your dignity,
And never keep your head down
Lest, let me say, you fail,
When you fall down, to rise up
Like before.
*******
You will make it.
You will hopefully make it
No matter how perilous, daunting
And imposed this way of life
Might seem.
Arise, Awake and Be.
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Plant the flowers of your garden
And guide the sluice of water into them.
Nobody will do it better except you.
Nobody will step in your shoes.
Look at their flowers and wonder.
Spring is coming despite winter.
Help its coming by going back
To your home and garden.
There is also this to be said, my friends, and done despite what has been said but never done; ‘Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.’ (1) Yet how? Because I have always sought and still continue to seek the how and abjure the why and when it comes to when or where, I say come on! ‘to whom should I speak, for whom should I speak, when there is no need to speak?'(2) Friends do become friends; Oh yes, and when winter comes, with rain and wind, we plead and pray to know that, because the meadows are there, the rainbows are there, flowers, daffodils, lilacs and roses are still there, every growing seed of life will make Spring.
Best Regards to all my friends,
(1) Gibran Khalil Gibran
(2) J. M. Coetzee
Picture by Moroccan Photographer Mouloud Zoubir
