À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.

Nor a golden studded palace neither an air-conditioned cosy room

Not a long black dress with pearls not a jaguar which glitters black

I need but pen and paper with ink enough to last for eternity

You may build castles

You can open ‘sesame’ doors keep the gold, keep the gems spill your joys, drown your desires leave but some coins for pen and paper with ink enough to say what I want when the shadows of clouds hover around in circles as the bright sun enters the horizon light your house, fill your cup let drift aside from under the curtain some light to write what I can.

On the white paper of my life paints the black ink, some sorrows some pains, some sighs deep felt inner needs slowly move the paper and the pen with sobs enough to last for ever.

Paper and pen, my shadows eternal pen and paper, my life, my pains travel through rains and sun breathing life where life is not

I need my pen and paper to make myself live to eternity.

A song, a smile, a line, these are things greater than riches of mighty king

Bio

Anitah Aujayeb

A long-standing educator, now teaching at tertiary level, she has authored several books in all genres of literature, novels, stories, travelogues, poems and history.