Poem - Slaughtered Lame Groans, Poet - Mohammed Gaddafi Massoud (Libya)

 

Slaughtered Lame Groans

Mohammed Gaddafi Massoud (Libya)

Who found you in my land

A lie ?

Who wears the sedition of questions?

And raised you up in a storm

I made an appointment

You brush my eyelids

The burdened one

My pink baby

How equal your face and the sun

O sin of others?

When you roar in their silence

And reveal the fangs of their virtue

You knock tears in my streets

You climb my calm

Lightly resourceful, ambitious

Dress up the wound

To reach the maximum pain in you

Your flutes cut her veins

You're tearing up

You keep my mark

May he give you lameness

Slaughtered groans

Above all..I love you

over all societies

And above all the ridiculous traditions that bind us

I love you after my life..above those dreams

And candles lit at night lovers

*Translated into English by Raja Naqara*

©®Mohammed Gaddafi Massoud (Libya)

About the Poet:

Muhammad Gaddafi Masoud was born on 13. 7. 1978 in  Gharyan city, Libya. He obtained an intermediate diploma, specializing in theater arts, from the Jamal al-Din al-Miladi Institute in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in 2000.

He writes poetry in Arabic, and his poems have been published in various Arab newspapers and magazines. His collection of poetry was published in 2007 in Libya for a single edition. Some of his poems have also been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Albanian, and Chinese, and published in newspapers, magazines, and websites in Italy, Argentina, Greece, China, Spain, India.