The watch post

The watch post
above the “princes”
On looks into the hotel
Instead
Toward the Egyptian border
And the smuggling paths.

The soldiers know
Why the tourist
from the 3rd floor
Above the swimming pool
Smiles with embarrassment
To the water boy;

But not how convoys
Of drug And human beings
Traders
Pass by
Under their open eye.

09.2006

A limb

God didn’t
smile at me today.
Many eyes I’ve met
And yet
They all had
A missing element
That I can’t explain
In words. God
Didn’t smile . I also
Missed you a lot..
There is no doubt in my mind
That mid June rain
At 3 AM
While I was alone
Walking down the street,
And god didn’t;
Was meant for me.
I was almost redeemed.

6.2007