A Friendly void

by Abdelmalek Kemmou - Aquarius

A Friendly Void


Burdened with impossible
Mixed with appetizing farness
My exile bloodies me
I face the remotest of time
And my fright, like an avalanche, surrounds me
		You wretch me, always, O beat
		You are always my privilege

Present with the strength of exile
Exiled in the form of presence
Galaxy of words
		My words, unlike words
Answer, you gardens of desires
Light up, you girdle of wounds
My first shoe is exclusion
The other a pruning doubt

Mixed with the blood of things
With situations
With my remote dimensions
I isolate my time from time
		Will I meet it?
I step towards the seducing steps that do not see me
My heart is bottomless
I am the key to this time
I am other than prostrating insanity
Other than the journey to the known
Other than shape
Other than form
I devote my wing to straying
I don't submit		I don't adjust

The fur of habit is chronic and weary
The body is a tower of emotions
		My emotions, unlike emotions
My body, the star turning backwards
Often ... The point of beginning
		Unknown

I natured myself a flight
I am the wind instilled in a roving dust
An this greatness is the habit most addicted ... to me
I wear my orientations
I burrow the distance
Except this hurried departure
						No haven
Except this transparent doubt
						No companion
Time seems a lamp
Talk appears a fish

Be devout, O quivering
You lewdness, reach the blazing void
		Inside me
A remote and unattainable desire
 
I let you free, you deep darkness
Spurt out!
			Unbury!
Shroud in far lands which did not reach me yet
And the ones that are the size of my ignorance
		Dare!

Insomnia is the puzzling question of the night
Habit is an immature answer
Doubt is, like me, a water driving itself
The opposite is a double that never betrays
Time is never lost

I filled myself with a flow shaded with a profane deity
Between me and my choices, knowledge soaks
My language evades from languages
		Lavender

Silently buzzing
I say many things
To statues that do not understand much
Is it the first cruelty I face?
I don't think it is the last...
The sky escapes between my certitude and me
		Unbearable Nihilist
		And another sky, blazes my tenderness
Is the other my destiny?
The breaches of the hand are questions
And this water fleeing to them, the answer...

Devoid of the desire of a companion
I multiply my bodies		 I intersect myself
I wander	I widen	I spread
My words are water spring
My sun doesn't leave me
I march in an abyss
And the trip is for me alone
		The elements blaze
A voice from Gilead enlightens me
		The joys of the extreme secret
Mines me with third possibilities for the body
And these temples are some of my excessive desires
						
Qassyùn is my bed
And I am his love lying on the awake of stubbornness
The secret alphabet confides in me
Wear me, O images
I become a Jasmine sigh
The breeze is so tender to me!
The letter is a beat
The bridge to it is a fertile coincidence
My coincidence is a perplex fire
		Be Devout, O scent of the soul
		Pierce deep, O desirable confession
O wisdom of the river / friendship of the wave /
Infinite moon spring
		The vow seduces me
		Vision says me
		Heaving
		A sign

Surprising is this soul encountering its seduction
Surprising is this birth
I illuminate myself with crystal presences
His face is a gleaming sweetness
His rainy eyes
The color of his hair is brightness
His dimples atone for a beauty unfulfilled
His chest twinkles...
I drink from the dream of his height
His thirsty rashness equals me
My thresholds for him multiply
My paths are myrtle and thyme
The cloud, the star and the tree envy me
The mercury of his breath flows in my veins
His nudity is a winged splendor
His quiver is a fountain of lust
His embrace is a song willow
His touch is a stubborn tenderness sprinkled with purity
His kiss has a taste engulfing the concept
		My love is sweet
And his name, the embrace of the lips on the most beautiful of poems...

Anoint me! Exhale in me!
You, his fire writing on my pores
The ink of dawn
Growing liveliness of the flute
You ... Delight

Our encounter is glorious and ferocious
		Like lightening
Transparent as a blue moment in a dream
Luring like a poem...

I impossibilize myself ... from you ... to you
		And I umbrage you
You, bliss in the coming of days
The green successive night
The lewd prophecy
O life
		My fusion
		My perfection...


Ouafaa Lamrani
Amman - Damascus, July 1996
(Translated from Arabic by Abdelmalek Kemmou)

Birth sign: Aquarius
Date created: 2000-10-27 11:24:55
Last updated: 2021-04-14 17:18:11
Poem ID: 58150

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