Shadow of the Day

Again, we wake up wishing we hadn’t. Again, people die and others live. Again, we comfort ourselves with patience. But people die and we live to see them die. And patience is just another mean of killing the notion of time in favor of death and the killers.

Others say we fight them by standing still and by keeping that walk toward freedom and stability. I wonder how far freedom and stability are.

And what a long walk that is!

We hope and we dream. But mornings like today’s make us lose hope and see things as they are. We can’t close our eyes and imagine birds and trees under a shining sun with clear blue waves hitting the beautiful legs of a gorgeous lady having a tan. All we see are people rushing to wherever they’re rushing, fighting over the way others drive, not even smiling to their Gods and talking nothing except who died.

And what another shadow morning that was!

Haven’t we realized that the strategy is just not working? No we haven’t. Some are still following their leaders on the left and others doing the same on the right. I wonder when I will meet some others in between. Maybe some of you, my OtherEnders, would be interested in joining me on that track which can take us somewhere, who knows where, but surely somewhere. Those others, sticking left and right, will only stick to the border of an extremely steep slope which could only lead down there.

And that’s not where I want to be!

People dream of that higher step which cannot be reached easily. Europeans and others dream of that one-month vacation they will be having next summer. We, Lebanese and some others on this planet, dream of that day where we wake up in the morning and go to sleep in the evening knowing that we had a peaceful normal day.

And that’s what has become of our life ambitions!

I wish to be one of those who raise an issue followed by a solution. I have raised an issue today but how would a solution help if there’s no one to listen? I’m just a young man struggling in his own country instead of struggling in this world on a much larger scale. I’m just some guy marching on a path with no one except me. All others are walking along the borders, either left or right, and waiting for their fall. If it doesn’t come today, it will come another day because we will be seeing yet another shadow.

“And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in gray
--Linkin Park