Purple madness emerged with black death;
Drums and dulcimers are the words now that were said,
Shrilling masquerade dresses the faces,
Modern design and fool norms are the old disgraces.
Benyamin Bensalah
18.07.2018
Tag: short
Odd you say
It’s odd you say
to get on and handle this
while I’m my own
Scylla and Charybdis,
but it’s not Odyssey.
Benyamin Bensalah
12.08.2021
Warm buddies
All the people having big heart
are none else than damn whores –
sharing their soul part by part
till none remains just a thirsty corpse.
Benyamin Bensalah
13.03.2021
Shortly
It’s rough.
Two
packs
of
cigarettes
are
not
enough.
Benyamin Bensalah
11.03.2022
Behold
We shall be ever young and bold,
ignoring that we’re getting old,
not listening what has been told,
naming things have not been called,
and never turning someone cold.
Benyamin Bensalah
04.12.2020
Hoping bee
Hope is the only bee
that makes honey without flowers…
…and that lil drop of honey
is the only sweetness in my bitter life
is the only, but enough for a hoping bee,
to buzz: one day I will get back my flower.
Benyamin Bensalah
07.07.2018
Mood: all for the greater good
I walked out from others’ life
out of love and care;
isn’t it time to dare
loving myself just like others?
Benyamin Bensalah
07.09.2020
The recoil of an empty bullet
My departure from my home-land
was called social suicide by me;
now, I have nothing left to see
why shouldn’t I go back
as my last shoot.
Benyamin Bensalah
29.08.2020
A significant moment
There are times when you want to see a movie
just for a scene or for an image,
to listen to a song, to recite a poem
just for a line, just for one word
that gives meaning to all.
As there are times when you live with someone
just for that colorless, wordless moment,
compared to the years being so insignificant,
still that moment means all what is life,
saying that you are needed.
Benyamin Bensalah
18.08.2020
My Sun
Everything was so cold,
dark
and meaningless
UNTIL
I felt the heat of her body.
Benyamin Bensalah
11.04.2019
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