“I AM NOT──My Schizophrenia!” by Yasser RHIMI

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Go on──
Move on──
You my people── Myself,
in your
childish,
empty
STUBBORNESS! Yet──
Hide Not this time
for some other 20 or maybe 50 Shades
of Greyness,
in my ever-darkened me-lan-cho-liness!
I AM NOT YOU my people──
“Being too happy in thine happiness.”

I AM NOT YOU my people──
My Schizophrenia──
Megalomania──
Mythomania──
In the face of Nothingness!
I AM NOT YOU my people──
People of the
unprecedented,
unique,
extraordinary,
magnificent,
revolutionary…
LIE, COWARDICE and SHAME
of the ARABSURDNESS!

I AM NOT YOU my people:
Murderer of my mother’s womb──
Traitor of my brother’s tomb.

I am not my people:
Drunk in our freedom’ lost cause──
Sober in our martyrs’ bloody loss.

I AM NOT YOU my people:
Buffoon in my stolen past──
Seeking knowledge in forgetfulness──
Blind to my nakedness──
Deaf to the piercing groans of my long-tortured Virginity──
And Slave to the image of my STEP-FATHER!

I AM NOT YOU my people──Myself──
If You do not Transplant
another finger index a
nd water it
with the long-squashed, tearful cries
of our destitute relatives and countrymen.

REMEMBER the bludgeoning
stinky shadow
of your lonely prison ways──
its unfriendly cold──
and grieving rocky walls…
painted with History’s rotten flesh and bones!
In the prison nightmarish corridors,
you turned yourself into a mould-less mould──
Despite their manufactured consents,
You triumphed──
You chose: NOT…TO…
Be──
Other than Yourself/Myself:
Your Victory─
Your Mystery─
Your History!

All opinions are that of the author and not necessarily those of the website that it is published under.