Barefoot Inside The Palace

Barefoot inside the palace SamI DaouD

Dedication Scattered words dedicated to Yahia Yousry

Finale of an evening of no one's life To: Sami Daoud Don’t put on your glasses So as not to see the pity in their eyes You are broken And the illusion of the defeat will haunt you Live in your inner world Flying far away Were there obsolete streets and dilapidated buildings are, Continue your endless smile, Look at the top, the bottom and around you 24-02-2007

1-5-2003 To Faten Group of pictures Dating years ago, You look at them to know how much time has passed by, To know that you are alone, And for the first time, you shed a tear without noticing, For the rest of your life, And maybe you will sleep, In quietness 10-10-2005

The Total Collapse To: Faten On a high hill…. A castle far away With a red arched door Inhabited by animals, with sharp claws And a man, down the hill….. Looking at the top; Raising his hands, with its long nails Opening his mouth to utter a thing Nothing is said, his hand goes down He sits there…. At the bottom of the hill 03-01-2005

A picture on a ceramic To: Lavinia Aspired for light Passing through a glass Flirting upon my face Climbed up a tower Looking for a breeze Who would purchase these scattered clippings? Even if used for wrapping the bread But truth terrifies me Doesn’t provoke me to change reality I don’t want to be that being The silent being Silence terrifies me As it screams out the truth 13-5-2009

The moon in the middle of the sky To: Alexandra

My Marsh will be played in Heaven With all who dreamt and couldn’t achieve I'll laugh my last laughs, here, before I leave I'll live in the legend that I have created To be able to finally smile Applaud my friends, the comedy is over 26-06-2008

On the white Sand Dedicated to Alexandra Remember me with every passing cloud You won't see it again Remember me with every rose u smell, It sacrificed its life for you happiness Remember me with every wave that touches your body, This feeling won't come again, Remember one moment we lived together, Which I'll never forget Somewhere in the year 2000

The honored silence To: Sami Daoud Take a minute of your time, Look at what has happened and what is coming next, To know that you are unstable, You are haunted by what you inherited, You don’t realize it till now, When you took a minute of your time 09-12-2005

The end or the beginning To: Tamer Zikry The clock ticked exactly at 10 Nothing has changed since the morning Birds are still flying Flowers bowing where the sun rays are I looked from my window And stayed quite still Looking at the horizon, Is my destiny going to be like the travelers around the world? Traveling from one side to the other seeking the end Maybe I will not reach the end Maybe I have to look for the beginning 31-01-2008

The Ideal contradiction To: Faten Closing their eyes to kiss From embarrassment or pleasure Stealing to get rich or to eat Painting to decorate or for expression Demonstrating when hit Clapping when winning in violent sports Decorating streets while celebration Leaving others to clean after Living to enjoy Because life is lived once 01-09-2005

The Black Vault To: Faten Here I am alone, Vacuum surround me No love or hate Exploring the scourge of loneliness Listening to the voice of memories Seeing images of the past

Here I am alone, Seeing her without words Hearing her without sight Like a blind, and a deaf Struggling through the city walls City of love that I have created

Here I am alone No more speech or expression There is only love and in silence Maybe, forever 15-12-2003

I the clown To: Alexandra The red nose that still bleeds The pale white face And the curly wet hair The frowned eyebrows And the clown was created That still wonders Laughing 11-12-2008

The Dirge To Alexandra The Heavens will open their doors For the angels to cry Carrying its son Mourning, kyrie eleison Heavens will close their doors for me I, the sinner Yet I shall not die I’ll live forever My stories will be told Someway, sometime As I'm life 12-11-2008

A sentimental story To: HIM and HER A shooting star In a night melted in clouds We walk along the old avenue On the top of the plateau A wine amphora in the next morning Half full, half empty The sun rise We smile 22-07-2008

The life of someone else To Alexandra Swarm of flying crows Swirling around the bronze statue In a static day before the rain The fire burning in the barrel Warming a homeless for a few moments before sleep The pain heretofore Is just a hot breeze on an autumn day You will wake up to see the dream once again Just an illusion You will be living an illusion Until it becomes your only 16-02-2009

A Floating Soul To: Salma Here among these heavens I stand looking at you with my bodiless soul hanging Gazing at my chose one Writing with every feeling I won Everything I do, I love her, Close by me, she is, despite the far dimensions Always wriggling on my mind and dreams I love thee more with my eyes shut, my lips silent Listening to every whisper She is the one I aspired to love with Gazing at her, before sleep and after waking up It's you 14-2-2003

Frozen Tears To YOU Children toddle in silence A bowing man walking in the street A clown that doesn't laugh Ladies with black cloths screaming Black flags raised by someone White flags lowered by another's will I dream…. I dream that I dream to do Never, Never as long as you and we shall live 18-04-2004

Coinciding thoughts To YOU Have you seen it? How did it feel? What have you done about it? Didn’t it occur on your mind? Look around you! 03-08-2007

Nature To: Alia A naked lying body, As coming to life, As god sins it, As Human beings desire, As it used to live in the past, As it is, never and never will change 07-03-2006

Eroica To: Alexandra I will open the cage and set my birds free I won't see my reflection on the water surface Like a narcissus flower admiring its forbidden love No, don’t show me my face anymore I will see her, I will see them And the revolution will start Possibly shattering my body As I was born to be free 20-09-2008

Barefoot inside the palace To: Alexandra When my dreams become my nightmares What I dream of doing is what can be my major sin My desire is what prompts me to do anything But is it really in my fate to do this anything? Does it really matter what I do? I'm no longer afraid Perhaps through me I still am afraid Yet I drew the courage on my face My soul has become alienating from submission and adhesion Looking around and no one in sight Are they really following me? Or am I following my own footsteps? Am I really dying? 08-05-2008

A young girl running in the field with her mother To Alexandra The radiated light that you see, is the nurse's white gown. Half her face is lit; the half facing the window. You sit in silence; Like roses aside the railroad A moment passed; perhaps several ones….. And the silence is still mute 23-05-2008