Be gentle to my journeying soul and yours
And if one day it knocks at your door
Give it the gentle reality, the soft reality of a pulsating human embrace unafraid
But should you close that simple door
That natural door
You shall not find life you shall not find love
for your gentle soul is searching like the other mans
alas that man hardened by cumulative hurt and habit,
by treachery, betrayal and fear of more hurt incomprehensible mystified,
should close that simple door
and plunge the world into mirror-image circuits of infinite violence glorified
Be gentle to my journeying soul and yours
And if one day it knocks at your door
..
Try again later! CLOSED! for chronically elusive development..
"Prayer and reality sandwich"... The reality meets fatality!
Only Hope can show the Liberty's Gate.
I thank You for allowing us to share this profound WRITING.
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Reviewed by nevine Al Seidi (Reader)
Reviewed on August 31, 2003
The composition of the poem and the 'tit-for-tat' poetic justice are very straight forward. The title of the poem reflects the poet's disappointment; yet, the resolution of the poem, as evident in the last two lines, is indicative of human revenge. The voice in the poem is one oscillating between hope and resentment. The confusion is typically human ; and the tone is gentle like the tone in all Dr. Tarek Ali Hassan's works.
The theatricality of the closed door, along with the sign: "CLOSED" ushers to the drama and the suffering left out of the verse yet hinted at in the repetition of "gentle" against "hardened", "hurt", "treachery","betrayal", "fear",and "violence". Studying the diction, we see four "gentle", against seven indications and explanations of the closed door. The conclusion, then, must be that the poet is too 'weak' to really try and open the door, and finds it easier, to slam his eternally. Unaware, the poet pays the price of his own 'vulnerability'by giving up on his 'gentleness'.
The poem, short as it is, abounds with the dilema of love and deprivation,and hope and despair. The 'simple' door in the poem unearthes the complex feelings of loneliness and need of man trying to make sense of life through connecting with another soul, that presumably has the same 'simple' need.
The music is ultra soft; and the crescendo of the resolution against the dimenuendo of the opening lines ends the poem on a tragic note.The pathos in the poem is given dignity
by employing this 'gentle' music, though the ubruptness of the finale reflects an anger that was kept subdued.
Enjoyable in a VERY painful way.
Show me that door, and I wisll smash it into pieces for you, Doctor!
Hmmm, interesting Tarek, the first verse is prayer, the second reality...and the last two lines as an extra precaution to go with the gentleness of compassion. I like it! :)
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Only Hope can show the Liberty's Gate.
I thank You for allowing us to share this profound WRITING.
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
The composition of the poem and the 'tit-for-tat' poetic justice are very straight forward. The title of the poem reflects the poet's disappointment; yet, the resolution of the poem, as evident in the last two lines, is indicative of human revenge. The voice in the poem is one oscillating between hope and resentment. The confusion is typically human ; and the tone is gentle like the tone in all Dr. Tarek Ali Hassan's works.
The theatricality of the closed door, along with the sign: "CLOSED" ushers to the drama and the suffering left out of the verse yet hinted at in the repetition of "gentle" against "hardened", "hurt", "treachery","betrayal", "fear",and "violence". Studying the diction, we see four "gentle", against seven indications and explanations of the closed door. The conclusion, then, must be that the poet is too 'weak' to really try and open the door, and finds it easier, to slam his eternally. Unaware, the poet pays the price of his own 'vulnerability'by giving up on his 'gentleness'.
The poem, short as it is, abounds with the dilema of love and deprivation,and hope and despair. The 'simple' door in the poem unearthes the complex feelings of loneliness and need of man trying to make sense of life through connecting with another soul, that presumably has the same 'simple' need.
The music is ultra soft; and the crescendo of the resolution against the dimenuendo of the opening lines ends the poem on a tragic note.The pathos in the poem is given dignity
by employing this 'gentle' music, though the ubruptness of the finale reflects an anger that was kept subdued.
Enjoyable in a VERY painful way.
Show me that door, and I wisll smash it into pieces for you, Doctor!
Nevine Al Seidi
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