Exhilaration – Poem

Rabat - Dedicated to my mother, my sister, my wife, my daughter and all women of the world that make our day everyday…Truly without you we are nothing…We ought to celebrate you everyday….

When you smile you are a rose

Opening up to the soft caresses

Of morning dew

But in my mind

You are more beautiful

Than the rose

And sweeter than the dew

*****

When you giggle

You fill the surrounding environment

With sublime emotion

You exhilarate the viewer

With cool pine-scented fragrance

You awaken in the beholder

Dormant desire of pure saintly infatuation

And platonic love

You inebriate the stander-by

With whiffs of perfect affection

And the on-looker

With frills, thrills and more thrills

 *****

When you laugh

You bring sunshine

Into so many wretched lives

That resume yet again

The enjoyment of the beauty of colours

The singing of the birds

And the murmurs of the waters

And even the hills

Light up in exhilaration

With beautiful verdure

Of brush, thicket and hanging coppice

*****

When you talk

Your sounds, syllables and words

Are music to the ears

And a real symphony to the soul

Your phonemes, my friend,

Heal, as if by magic,

The damages of age

The bruises of deceit

And the injuries of betrayal

Photo by Yassine Abouyaala