barefoot inside the palace

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Barefoot inside the palace

SamI DaouD


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Dedication

Scattered words dedicated to Yahia Yousry


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Finale of an evening of no one's life

To: Sami Daoud

Dont put on your glasses

So as not to see the pity in their eyes

You are broken

And the illusion of the defeat will haunt you

Live in your inner world

Flying far away

Were there obsolete streets and dilapidated buildings are,

Continue your endless smile,

Look at the top, the bottom and around you

24-02-2007


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The moon in the middle of the sky

To: Alexandra

My Marsh will be played in Heaven

With all who dreamt and couldnt achieve

I'll laugh my last laughs, here, before I leave

I'll live in the legend that I have created

To be able to finally smile

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over

26-06-2008


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On the white Sand

Dedicated to Alexandra

Remember me with every passing cloud

You won't see it again

Remember me with every rose u smell,

It sacrificed its life for you happiness

Remember me with every wave that touches your body,

This feeling won't come again,

Remember one moment we lived together,

Which I'll never forget

Somewhere in the year 2000


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The honored silence

To: Sami Daoud

Take a minute of your time,

Look at what has happened and what is coming next,

To know that you are unstable,

You are haunted by what you inherited,

You dont realize it till now,

When you took a minute of your time

09-12-2005


10/23

The end or the beginning

To: Tamer Zikry

The clock ticked exactly at 10

Nothing has changed since the morning

Birds are still flying

Flowers bowing where the sun rays are

I looked from my window

And stayed quite still

Looking at the horizon,

Is my destiny going to be like the travelers around the world?

Traveling from one side to the other seeking the end

Maybe I will not reach the end

Maybe I have to look for the beginning

31-01-2008


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The Dirge

To Alexandra

The Heavens will open their doors

For the angels to cry

Carrying its son

Mourning, kyrie eleison

Heavens will close their doors for me

I, the sinner

Yet I shall not die

Ill live forever

My stories will be told

Someway, sometime

As I'm life

12-11-2008


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A sentimental story

To: HIM and HER

A shooting star

In a night melted in clouds

We walk along the old avenue

On the top of the plateau

A wine amphora in the next morning

Half full, half empty

The sun rise

We smile

22-07-2008


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The life of someone else

To Alexandra

Swarm of flying crows

Swirling around the bronze statue

In a static day before the rain

The fire burning in the barrel

Warming a homeless for a few moments before sleep

The pain heretofore

Is just a hot breeze on an autumn day

You will wake up to see the dream once again

Just an illusionYou will be living an illusion

Until it becomes your only

16-02-2009


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Coinciding thoughts

To YOU

Have you seen it?

How did it feel?

What have you done about it?

Didnt it occur on your mind?

Look around you!

03-08-2007


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Eroica

To: Alexandra

I will open the cage and set my birds free

I won't see my reflection on the water surface

Like a narcissus flower admiring its forbidden love

No, dont show me my face anymore

I will see her, I will see them

And the revolution will start

Possibly shattering my body

As I was born to be free

20-09-2008


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Barefoot inside the palace

To: Alexandra

When my dreams become my nightmares

What I dream of doing is what can be my major sin

My desire is what prompts me to do anything

But is it really in my fate to do this anything?

Does it really matter what I do?

I'm no longer afraid

Perhaps through me I still am afraid

Yet I drew the courage on my face

My soul has become alienating from submission and adhesion

Looking around and no one in sight

Are they really following me?

Or am I following my own footsteps?

Am I really dying?

08-05-2008


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A young girl running in the field with her mother

To Alexandra

The radiated light that you see,

is the nurse's white gown.

Half her face is lit;

the half facing the window.

You sit in silence;

Like roses aside the railroad

A moment passed; perhaps several ones..

And the silence is still mute

23-05-2008

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