For people of Adleb
Let’s be hopeful
Who is following me
With a shadow
Spread from horizon to horizon.
A thunderstorm
Is blowing away
My dreams
All grey.
Someone is singing
A strange song
Someone is lamenting
For a lost love
I know the secret of colors
Hope is getting gray
When a little girl
Has nothing to be happy
Except the roaring of the falling bombs.
The spring is hidden behind a tree
And the breeze lamenting
Among the rubble.
The snow is ashamed of
Being a blanket
For desperate people
What happened to the dreams
Of the lost people
Wandering in nowhere
Who is going to give them
A piece of bread
And a chunk of hope
But I must be hopeful
And pray for a sparrow
Looking for his mate
Lost in nowhere
I am nobody.
Feb. 12. 2020
Mehri Yalfani: Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer 