Vanishing Dreams

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    Vanishing Dreams

     Afra promised to wait for me
    But Afra never did
    Whenever I passed by her door
    She dropped a veil and hid

    Hussa from Telex room just called
    I have a telex note
    The tax collectors back at home
    Are soon selling my boat

    A bank note came also today
    Demanding I pay debt
    I searched my pockets, but alas!
    I failed to find a cent

    I saw James Baker in my dreams
    So happy and in cheer
    At last he was promised "support"
    For peace from "Dad" Shamir

    Rabab, in tears, once said to me:
    "How painful is the plight
    Since immigration, though gives hope,
    Is loneliness and fright"

    It is weekend, I sigh in relief
    At last I hope to rest
    But wailing winds and sandy storms
    Put an end to my zest

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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