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.

If time spares you some time

Say a mantra for me, only a line

If life smiles at your tasks multiple

Utter a prayer for me, if possible

When the rose petals droop in your garden

Keep some for me, one, three or ten

When the clouds are gone and left

Send them all the prayers I kept

At the untimely end of the rueful day

Grieve not for me, keep me at bay

At the brim of the eye, keep not a tear

Let it fall for its sake, a single droplet mere

At each breath, many in a minute inhaled

Keep the spirit and my passion exhaled

At each step, long or short, cautiously taken

Think of me and my faith, bruised but unshaken

At each wink of the eye, let the eyelid recall

The beauty of the unseen, unheard spectacle

If time gives you some extra time as present

Keep that best gift for me in life’s untold descent

If time spares you some extra time

Say a mantra for me, only a line

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