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.

When the angry bull hit the boy’s innocent eye

Blood and tears must have met along his sigh

The young lad must have cried profusely

As tears overpowered and blood cooled courageously

Life would be the same no more

As Destiny unfolded its wings in the décor

Fate won the game

When the little feet and littler steps hastened

Towards the Roman Catholic Aided school’s haven

The child must have shed tears a few

As he stood in those shoes and boots in the queue

Life would no more be the same

As Fate camouflaged life’s bane

Endurance won the game

Then came the laurels at RCC’s gates

Then followed the glorious dates

As the good doctor in the making

Bore vehemently London’s cold and shivering

Life would no more be the same

As Destiny paved the way to fame

Predestination won the game

No more tears, no more qualms

No more sighs, no more downs

Tears he wiped from the poverty-stricken

Joys he brought to the schoolchildren

Life would no more be the same

As free education did all flames insufflate

Selflessness in service won the game

But then the tears returned

As the cruel polls, the game turned

The flame withered, the purest tear was shed

While thankless hearts shamelessly jubilated

Life would no more be the same

Until the last breath on the window pane

Which smelt of the soil and the rain

Bio

Dr 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.