EMPTINESS

Emptiness dwelled my heart

Sickness dwelled my body

I was at a time here and nowhere

I looked for myself everywhere

Without looking for it within myself

I looked for help everywhere

I found relief nowhere

Forgetting to ask it from you

While ignoring to look for you

I started meeting you

Everywhere and nowhere

But never within myself

When your divine care

Sent a breeze of wisdom to my life

Eyes of my head looked inside me

The truth filled my heart emptiness

Certainty and intuition cured my heart

I felt my soul bursting everywhere

Saying clearly this world isn't mine

Rhyming with every spirit in this sphere

seeking peacefully the everlasting join

Houda Boukassoula ( 2019-06-20)

Father’s Day

Oh Daddy

How can I forget

The day You left

I was only eight

Yes I still remember

Never able to forget

Seeking refuge in your arm

After every nightmare or harm

With that strong belief

To find there my relief

Still unable to forget

How firm you were

When you meant to correct

Yes I’m fifty, yet I remember

How you taught me romance

Talking that eye language with mum

How you taught me affection

With your parental devotion

How I acquired self reliance

When you left without reference

When you left for no  address.

Human Flowers

When nights had gone darker
I had never felt afraid
To my bed I went straight
Not to sleep or get some rest
It was just to be able to sink
In profound slumber and dreams
Where I could weave fanciful stories
And make hypotheses and antitheses
In order to flee my fake existence
Then I grew up to realize that

Dreamers have to achieve their dreams
That dreamers in this world are flowers
Blooming over a volcanic land
They are like the gentle breeze
Refreshing a hot day in summer
Amidst wars and turmoils depression
Their dreams are like stars over a wasteland
They nourish the intuition and perception
Of the desperate human soul in isolation

 Houda Boukassoula

Seeing Anew

There comes a time

When your eyesight is alright

Yet your eyes cease seeing

You exist but you cease living

Every Cell in you ignores living

When you cease hoping

When you cease feeling

What makes of you a human being

Only your soul keeps the door ajar

Waiting for faith to discard and mar

The evil side in the human character

For a fresh sprout to split the ground

Wave softly in a dance with the breeze

Slit the darkness and establish dawn

Among falling dry autumn leaves

To bloom them into colourful flowers

Spreading a life refreshing fragrance

Pumping in your cells a new life desire

Teaching your eyes to see life essence

Relying on your intuition and experience.

Houda Boukassoula