The Cursed Poet



The unfortunate one who goes away like that every night
In a thousand loneliness collect the life which escapes him
Is only this lonely poet who drinks strong liquors
To bury, at the bottom of his soul, his lost youth.
Now and then, He sleeps and gets carried away by the night.
He sinks into infinite tranquility... An eternal oblivion !
To taste sometimes dreams, sometimes nightmares...
For him, sleep is to distract oneself from the universe
And the drunkenness is to heal yourself from his Birth
And to go beyond the tortuous paths of its existence
Far from everything, to explore, alone, nothingness.

When for the poet embellished with an opiate dream
And guided by an astral ray in the middle of the night,
"To be born" is to cross the limits of chaos !
"To live" is to go slowly towards death;
"Aging" is a disease that can never be cured !
Melancholy remains a deep and monotonous sadness,
He drinks his salutary poison... His divine beverage !
Who alone seems to scare away the specter of darkness.
On the way to his last home: The tomb !
He sings the funeral cantilena of his lost life
And goes away carrying in him the regret of being born.

About this poem

IN TRIBUTE TO "Si Muhand U Mhand" (Kabyle Poet)

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Written on December 28, 2015

Submitted by Meb-ROCK on January 17, 2022

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXXAXXXXXB XAXXXBXBXXX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,154
Words 220
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 11, 11

Meb ROCK

 · 1980 · Kabylie

Meb Rock: Writer-poet, was born June 28, 1980 in Kabylia. He is the author of several literary works… ● Alas! (Fr) ● Forbidden words (Fr) ● Nocturnal pleasures (Fr) ● Whiskey's words (En/Fr) ● Chaos (Fr) For him, poetry is the manipulation of words, the arrangement of forms to achieve a new form that is always unexpected. His work is intended as a tragedy of a thinker of disillusionment. It is marked with the seal of pessimism. According to him: "Pessimistic writing is always meant to be the rite of the insane." more…

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  • Ruthmahogany
    Sleep is to distracted one's self from the universe.
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