Poems - by Mahé Rabesa

Moonlight

A light sheet lays over the fields 

As if to veil the truth 

Clouds act like the finest youth 

Pretending to live through the winds

Night falls slowly 

Leaving alone the graceful Sun before it dies 

The sky and its colours live only 

Through the trees the early star rise 

The moon dances between the trees 

Its faint rays in the valleys 

Shy will be the dawn 

After the night mourn 

Lucifer

The fountain of fire

Where happiness flows

Where sadness, distress are 

Words that don't exist

 

Do you know this place? 

I've tasted the warmth of the flames 

The beauty of your soul

The flavour of your tears

And, I cried on the Sun 

To make the dark clear

Yes, I cried on the Sun 

To dazzle your shadow

 

Look at paradise in hell 

And the fires under the sea

The tsunamis on earth

Rain that falls in the desert

 

I’ve heard the silent thunder 

Seen the invisible lightning  

I saw you dancing like the leaves falling from the trees 

I've seen you cry, you who makes all the ladies turn their heads 

Tell me your secret, and I'll tell you how to get there 

You'll taste the warmth of the flames 

The beauty of your soul 

The flavour of your tears 

Sunday

Sunday 

She is eighteen

And never had a dream

But she is the only one who can see the trees growing

She’s not a teen anymore

But not adult either

Something 

in 

between

Her name is Olympe

And if I didn’t close my eyes, I breathed again

Why didn’t I say something?

Maybe the rain would have stopped falling

She wasn’t ready, she wasn’t ready

She did not wait for the sun to rise

Impatience ran through her veins

She started her journey to the center of the earth far too soon

She wasn’t ready, she wasn’t ready

When leaving, she left behind all her flowers and books never opened 

Olympe once called 

She never called again

Her hands are no longer shaking

She falls asleep in the arms of Mother Earth

And one day,

One day, she’s going to be at peace

Because we will break the fire

And watch the birds fly 

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Mother Earth

Even from the top of the world, you could not see 

And as we keep moving away

But can’t go anywhere because of those chains 

You should have looked at me 

And it is too late now

The rain started to fall

She is running way faster than you

She is carrying all the complains

All the screams that echo in the air

It is not like we can’t see each other

The wind didn’t warn you

He's a liar anyway

Keep the shouting

The rose never stays long on the grass

It is not because I’m tall

It is because no one listens carefully

You never heard

The river breath out its last breath

You never listened to the colours all around

You just listened to the snow hurt and rocks 

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We are old now

We can have this conversation

Or walk away without ever being understood

I do not want to hide anymore

Please, let me raise the flag

And, if I had told you that they were always there? 

If I had said to you that I was never angry?

That the volcano deep inside me was already extinct 

The water would be clearer

Did I ever say that I wanted to be         with you?

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