Anouar Ben Hassine

You passed away 
Everything comes to an end 
But words never die  
They stay in the soft soil of memory 
The poems never surrender to death  
They remain a pure spirit of all 
When a poet leaves 
There’s a leaf somewhere fade 
You might have gone away 
But you are not leaving 
 
When the sun goes down  
Your crystal rhythm appears like rays  
In the unreachable distance  
Now, we watch your soul rise 
From another universe  
There, at the dawn of Tigris River 
You become free from all chains 
Flying with metaphor’s wings 
And your voiceless language  
Touches the Euphrates riversides 
 
All waterfronts miss your whispers 
Words get up louder 
Hosting reckless voices of the ocean 
You are like a fabulous palm tree 
Growing in the unknown 
Bigger than you can imagine 
Through splendid arms of imagination 
The poet’s dream goes round the earth 
To freed up the old capitals  
And fill the sky with hopes 
 
Beyond the curtains of London’s mist 
Your last words shine in the sea caverns 
Engrave the missing meaning 
To release the land of exhausted selves  
Waiting for such a dream 
That no more exists 
Saadi Youssef, you will stay alive in the hearts 
We follow your path to meet triumph 
To carry the spark of wonder 
To belong to no time.