{"id":9889,"date":"2024-01-01T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2024-01-01T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:16:14","slug":"the-new-year-poet-rawda-al-haj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/01\/the-new-year-poet-rawda-al-haj\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Year: Poet Rawda Al Haj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nNever disturb myself<br \/>\nTo contain it<br \/>\nTo spoil her<br \/>\nI had tired her so much that she was exhausted<br \/>\nBut she stayed<br \/>\nOn the same vows!<br \/>\nI decided in the new year<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t justify anything<br \/>\nNot to explain anything<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t I bet on life<br \/>\nSoon<br \/>\nOr far away!<\/p>\n<p>Not answering a call<br \/>\nFor example, you will break my mind<br \/>\nOtherwise, I will buy from someone who sold me<br \/>\nShould I not be flattering?<br \/>\nWho bothers me being among them?<br \/>\nfor example<br \/>\nI am tired<br \/>\nI will not do more!<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<\/p>\n<p>Should I not tell someone who is leaving me?<br \/>\nI am waiting!<br \/>\nNo matter how expensive it is<br \/>\nWhoever wants to stay<br \/>\nIn my eyes<br \/>\nAnd whoever wants to leave<br \/>\nI helped him<br \/>\nAs long as that&#8217;s what he wants!<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t I look into people&#8217;s eyes?<br \/>\nAbout Me!<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t see me well<br \/>\nA mirror of myself<br \/>\nAs long as you are honest with me<br \/>\nIt is as if my eyesight is iron!<\/p>\n<p>Do I not hope for anyone else?<br \/>\nhappiness<br \/>\nHappy<br \/>\nRainy clouds<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s enough to wait for them<br \/>\nI will make me happy<br \/>\nAnd I laugh at my stories<br \/>\nAs I cry with me<br \/>\nI have had enough of ingratitude!<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nTo rest from the troubles that come<br \/>\nI drank my hopes<br \/>\nIt raged in my blood<br \/>\nStay up late and ask questions<br \/>\nShe led me into exile from exile<br \/>\nAnd she threw me into these valleys<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nNot to waste my energy<br \/>\nIn running after their mirage<br \/>\nIn search of their causes<br \/>\nTheir presence and absence<br \/>\nAnd their blame and reproach<br \/>\nI ask myself, what is wrong with them?<br \/>\nLife is just a hasty cloud<br \/>\nIt passes and does not come back!<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nThat I will always forgive<br \/>\nfor me<br \/>\nFor those I love<br \/>\nFor those passing by<br \/>\nAnd for the friendships that betrayed my certainty<br \/>\nWhich I completed with my imagination<br \/>\nIgnorance remains a supreme escape<br \/>\nAnd a key<br \/>\nFrees this soul<br \/>\nI spent a long time in chains!<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nI will leave the past behind me<br \/>\nI will take his weight off my shoulders<br \/>\nI walk lightly in this life<br \/>\nTo regain my peace<br \/>\nonce again<br \/>\nAnd some of my childhood<br \/>\nAnd I will recover!<\/p>\n<p>I decided in the new year<br \/>\nTo start the new life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events I decided in the new year Never disturb myself To contain it To spoil her I had tired her so much that she was exhausted But she stayed On the same vows! 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