Islème Sassi (2012)

A girl with bleak future

That’s how I look to you

But I’m a queen in her castle

I’ll shut you out

Hiding and wasting 

Over long forgotten books and thoughts

No, I’m immersed in a great plan

I brew a poison for you

You don’t know me

And you’re not supposed to

I’ll catch you unaware

One sweet day you’ll perceive my play

Beautifully spun, masterfully done

One day soon I will sound my tune

And the just revenge will put an end to my gloom

I never took to blending in with the crowd

I rather kept to myself

So I never learnt to be afraid of the dark

I drink the night

Many dimensions reveal themselves 

As I speak the words

Since you’ve tried to keep me captive here

I’ll disperse your herds

For all those years I was being patient

I was being docile

You relied on me being your puppet

Easy to hold under control

But I awoke many years ago

I didn’t move but assembled my tools

I didn’t speak up but I wrote it all down

You can read it on your bed of ashes.