MEMORIES.

where there's no one,
i rejoice a whole world!

with nothing on the ground,
i hear but love in sound;

with nothing to see in eyes,
i alone enjoy green fields;

when there's for me no beat
gabriel lends his hand to complete;

smiling faces by me stand,
eager to hold me in hand;

all i've is not today's world:
for i find new joy in the old.

for all my joy there's but one place
      where i run, time and again,
where i play rejoicing in its blessed rain.

there i never feel  alone--
but feel, know i am AT ONE.

alot of me from today is left kept and hid,
for so much of me there is lit!

not a thing for me is vain,
what a world of  joy to gain:

for there i no more grieve,
there is but joy to weave--

not anymore for me to miss,
all joy is mine at will, this!

                                         -by
                            Hakim H. Kassim.
                            (d. June 08, 2014)
                            /-Jigjiga.

I see it glowing in your eye, so new,
  And on those hips of yours, tender
         and lean,
Hosting Beauty in all its breadth and
         depth, I see the dew
  Of a new dawn in my heart and soul, to
         win
A new horizon  abrim with joy and
        with you lived in peace;
  Like Aurora in early-dawn mist
        carrying those 'milky thighs' that
            forever men's hearts deem
  To beat too fast, speechless in the quiet
         utter loss
In truelove's holy light, unable to awake,
         or dream
  And so is my heart in your  palms,
         whatever you say, wherever you go,
No words can express what in my heart
         wanes,
  What feelings, what thoughts, what
         hopes in want--
Nor how to your ignorance I cannot
        explain my pains,
  What with your love I see and know,
        you just can't
Imagine in your best mind, all things
        being equal:
  Of Joy, and Love,  and all in holy light
Of truelove; but alas! as theirs is a cry
       without content,
  The moth and the star, so truelove for
       you will only be dream of night,
Never to breathe daylight,  never to live
      what was meant
  With Joy, unconditioned love with no
       second-thoughts;
Your "Hi," said with a tremble of soul,
     with a defensive smile,
  Still self-conscious-- treading with
       needless pain,
Worries about tomorrows over which
        you hardly control for even a while,
  And second- thoughts that in our love
        you cannot explain,
Though in your mind you sport it--
        where's the joy of love you're
              supposed to  live, anyway?
                  

                                     ­          -by
                                   Hakim H. Kassim.
                                  (d. July 31, 2023)
                                   /- Jigjiga.

(for Muhubo Ali-Nur)

LOVE.

morning breeze.
the world at ease.

cordial days--
onward, in blessed ways.

your future in another.
wanting to be together.

. . .wishing on a star?
oh, in love we are!

trusting the unknown future--
for with desire let's act mature.

will there be a broken heart?
we'll never be apart!

for keeps, forever:
to fall out? never.

my idea of the pure?
well, she's my only lure.

eclipses in soul,
for time's no one's fool.

so much more of  the  good--
so much good above mind and mood!

            
                                             -by 
                                 Hakim H. Kassim.
                                (June 08, 2017)
                                /-jigjiga.

LOVE LOST-1.

alone you had for me the words to soothe,
you alone could touch my heart in truth--

i remember when you first kissed
          without a sigh,
and that answered for me any possible
          why;

you called-out to my soul for home,
and i then sought myself no longer to
          roam,

and ever since then i find you close and
          dear,
never too far away, you were always
          near:

no more! for you're on my lap no more!
          no more!
so much alone here's sickening and sore!

in the bleak December eve dark with
         wintry  breeze,
in my only thought are but images of you
         grasping, to caress ---

over the fire in my heart,  O! dream that
         never was,
as i in my mind fall into unquiet pose:

a willing casualty in anticipated dream
that, with me, has become but a soul
         in stream--

of tears, of pain and love, of you,
stark reality, an ever-flowing end too!
             
                                          ­  -by
                                Hakim H. Kassim.
                                (d. 2021)

TO HER I BELONG.

silence on lips,
in heart it all kills!

real love calms and grows--
like a well-nurtured rose,

ever-blooming  through the years,
never stained by doubt and fears.

here she loves and cannot give her hand,
I'm in deep need forsomeone to
      understand:

you're always on my mind!'
I've nothing left to lose behind---

all and only to gain you is before me:
God, would that it were left as it would
       be!

                                           -by
                               Hakim H. Kassim.
                               (d.Sept.23.2018)

The library girl

Sits alone, absorbed in ghostly in ghostly
      ancient Greeks--
In the deathless thoughts of what once
      was
Passionate Sappho or truthful Sophocles;

Trying  tirelessly to chaunt their
       language,
To revive their gleam out of dry pages,
For long hours devoting to get back, back
       to them,
As she finally falls asleep in her
       exhaustion;

A homage is paid to the old 'Glory' in nap
       meditation,
And as this heavenly beauty travels
       through history's clock,
Safe in library warmth from the
       discomfort of winter snow,


The desk-lamp twinkles: It's time to go!
                

                                           ­     by
                                  Hakim H. Kassim.
                                 (d. November, 1989)

My love is as much as ocean,
  My vision as deep, as true,
My intent in holy name of devotion;
  Mine for keeps cast on ocean's blue!
          
                                          -by
  ­                                Hakim Kassim.
                                 (-d. June 29, 2023
                                /Jigjiga).