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Our Alexandria by Nikos Laios 2017-04-08 11:10:53 |
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Our Alexandria
The flame has Dimmed,the Lighthouse Now gone.
The streets Of the cosmopolitan City of ideas has emptied, And the waves of wisdom Receded.
The once bright Flame that flickered Against the burnished Brass is radiant No more.
The light That shone on Blooming Geraniums and Hyacinths that Wreathed themselves Around the feet of Our desires and Thoughts; Their shadows Now strolling Through Empty, Arching, Crumbling Porticoes.
Where Thoughts and Desires mingled In equal measure To mellifluous sounds. The Haunting Melodies that floated Over the room And across the city Like a zeppelin, As the night breeze slowly Undulated the soft curtains Like the curves of an exotic dancer, Ice cubes clinking in the glass, Under the mournful notes of Some sad eastern song.
Cooled by The soft kisses Of the once great City,as the last beads Of sweat danced and Coiled themselves Around my neck.
My mind, flying,flying On the wings of the Once bright light from The Pharos that Illuminated the Dark recesses.
O,how I yearn For those Cosmopolitan Days,for our Alexandria.
As the dried, Dead geraniums And hyacinths Tumble down The cold and Darkened city Streets past Shuttered shops.
For the flame Has dimmed,the Lighthouse Now gone.
We have Lost our Alexandria.
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With a digital drawing from Nikos Laios
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