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Dec 2014
Parallel life.
  Many faces they say.
    Who are we going to see today!

    Who do you want to see?
     Who do you want me to be?
       Who AM I gonna see?

        Want to be someone?
          Well be!

          What's he say in there?
            Let's do it!

            Conquer this world!
             Let them see!
               Oh! The fire!
                The passion,
                  soul, energy,
                    lights up all
                     that's around it.


               Then.........
                It crashes!
                 Why!
                  I don't know.
                   I just watch,
                     They watch,
                       carefully afraid
                        of the reaction
                             they'll see.
                          
                  Where has that fire fled?
                    And this absence of light.
                     The darkness
                       that clouds my world.
                        That, what I no longer want
                          to hear and see.
                            Shutting out the light,
                             dousing the fire.
                              And watching those clouds
                               covering, looming
                                over me.
                                
                   That is when,
                     Parallel lives
                       appear.
                        Please disappear,
                         Let me be.
                          This strength I know
                           to me.
                            Even, if silent,
                              but strong, active
                               and unstoppable,
                                ready to rest, not die
                                 from within.
                                   Just make these two lives,
                                    let them be one.
Written somewhere above Peru, on a plane many dark years ago.
hani shibli
Written by
hani shibli  London
(London)   
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