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    Then The Dawn Returns
    Then The Dawn Returns
    Then The Dawn Returns
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    Then The Dawn Returns

    By Imad Afdam

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    The book entitled Then The Dawn Returns is a poem on poetry, humanity, love and life. It involves 63 poems that launch the reader into a journey of reflection and profound sensation of what it is to be a human in this modern world. Perhaps the answer to that question is love, and poetry is its Ambassador, because poetry, is the only evidence of life in the Milky Way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherImad Afdam
    Release dateSep 4, 2017
    ISBN9781370263554
    Then The Dawn Returns
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    Imad Afdam

    Imad Afdam is a Moroccan poet, writer, translator and researcher. Currently living in Marrakesh, Morocco. Imad holds a Bachelor in English Literature and Linguistics and a Majester of Applied Foreign Languages, International Relations and Anthropology.

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      Book preview

      Then The Dawn Returns - Imad Afdam

      THEN THE DAWN RETURNS

      A Poetry Book by

      Imad AFDAM

      ’…To all who have made this book an inspiration, a creation…’

      ‘’2nd Februarys’’

      Let us celebrate our existence,

      For it matters that here we are.

      ‘’Love and Hatred’’

      In the debate of hatred and love

      No one wins.

      They say our time is a past

      Already seen and lived.

      They say we live again, yet again

      We love, and hate…

      But I think when feelings repeat

      Themselves, they kill themselves,

      And never had I loved, and felt dull,

      And never had I seized, to love…

      One can betray, one can lie,

      One can have a heart, and mind,

      One can have nothing at all.

      But the one who hates never live,

      And the one who loves, never dies.

      Hatred says I exist, love replies:

      I survive.

      ‘’The world is no longer happy’’

      The world is no longer happy...

      Everything is said and found already…

      This is unfortunate.

      One had once a will to create,

      And nothing is new, not even you.

      All is reversed, and all is re-made,

      Ancient that were, the past admits.

      And by time, you dismiss;

      and thus nothing would survive;

      but this...

      ‘’Hope’’

      We live for today,

      Wary from yesterday,

      curious about the following day.

      We live with white and black,

      As if life is only two colors,

      Two choices, two chances...

      We live for today

      Within the shades of a distant past,

      Who still has lights on, they blind us those lights.

      We live for today

      Fearing the unknown of tomorrow,

      Whether it will be a triumph, a sorrow.

      Life is colorful, for the eye that sees beauty.

      Life is happiness, for the heart that loves truly.

      If yesterday was a war,

      Today is a reason

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