DjehanePoetry

Independence Day Yesterday was Independence Day: I truly enjoyed a day of vacation. I intensely watched the fireworks; I kept wishing for Freedom and Liberty. Must independence remain a distant aspiration? An unfulfilled yearning, the unreachable Star, The one wish never to come true, The symbol of inaccessible hope, A Guiding Light too remote to follow? Having spent endless years locked up in The darkness of bondage, I’m waiting For the moment when the clarity of Freedom Will lighten my path as well as what is left of My life. I wish to believe that I am finally about To obtain my Freedom and achieve my Liberty! © Djehane Hassouna, 2006 Rainbow of Emotions, page 136