BY SALOMEJA NERIS
My life is a windstorm, unleashed and unbounded,
It sweeps like a falcon expanses of field!
My life with the echoes of spring is resounding,
My life is a mad dream I’m destined to yield.
And yet I love life, full of vigor and fire,
As much as a wild meadow flower loves spring.
I love joy of life with a burning desire
And like only youth can to joy blindly cling.
O earth, my beloved and bountiful mother!
You dress up in flowers, at times in blood too.
Who’d change your sweet charms for the Garden of Eden?
I dread to imagine my life without you!
I love you, big world, ever bustling, beguiling!
You’ll tear me, perhaps, like a beast of the wilds.
I’ll die all the same at the sun broadly smiling,
And sunbeams will shine in my eyes.
Always
New Year— a harbinger of hope
I feel happy and ecstatic
My mind doesn’t seem to be weak
It is one of those lovely times
Where I am happy to be alive
Everything makes sense to me
I love my life, it sets me free
It’s new year now& wishes are made
I want this to continue till the end
Even though there may be dark times in life
I will stick to it with strife
Because of moments like this is life!
The Ethiopia Herald September 14/2023
