ORANGE SUN

what are you thinking of today?
are you thinking of your tiring job,
your finance, spouse, needs, the list is endless
like it was the day after..
Today, am thinking not about today,
but about a day that was like today,
a day that started like today
am thinking about that black Sunday
when the orange evening sun,
hovered over the water
as the fishes jumping and gliding to have a feel of warmth,
the children, playing hide and seek,
the women, preparing dinner
the men, sitting and wondering which way the day after would point
then, the sun turned blood
and rained over the water
the canal became a womb
it took men, women and their offspring
it took all, joy and hope was gone
that same canal...
the explosions did not kill,
the noise did nothing,
the inferno was great, but it burnt no one
that same serene canal,
that was like it wasn't
claimed yet all..
It took humans and left corpses
I watched a bereaved man, losing it for the loss of his only child,
sights and sounds of the black Sunday?
no, sights and sorrow of the black Sunday
sorrow was in the land
yet, it was a Sunday
On the next day,
the Moon-day, the Monday
the day after the "SUN-day"
life began on a new note,
it went on, leaving some people behind
leaving the hearts of some,
lost in that canal
burring the hopes of some at the bank,
life did move on
like it will always do,
it moved too fast for some,
breaking the hands of the clock
leaving them without dawn and dusk...
I think about that day,
i still hear the sounds,
the shattering glasses,
the piercing screams,
the howling and growling
the sorrow, the pains, the grief
i cant say it all
January 27th, 2001 says it all

ADIEU