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Writer's pictureAniss Benarrioua

Nyctophillian Love (Sins of Algiers)




The streets are dead and I’m dying

To see them just as dead as me,

And the wind blows my cinders upon the sea

Small sparkles of light are flying

The gaze locked on the telephone,

No, I won’t get rain anymore,

Only confusion in the eyes,

Like monastics losing the skies.


Algiers has put on its rainy coat,

And I’ve worn my leather vest.

In some rue we will meet up again

For a joint or a song for the dead.

Come on, pull yourself together !

You know she’s never coming back,

That your yin has gone astray

And Algiers won’t shine again


At the mercy of the new world order

I complain about the rain

I’m looking at the numbers as they rise

And it doesn’t move me at all.

My mind is thrilled with other things

My heart is filled with the things of you

And if the dead will rise again

My feather will not write without you


To the genocides they’re selling,

The plandemic, the statistics,

You know all this moves me not.

And as for the fate of the Earth...

It can die off, for all I care,

As it makes me live without you,

As, without you, every daybreak

Never comes together again.


The sun is yielding silently.

It’s telling me you will be missed.

On the other side of the world,

It must be yielding before you.

The sun will shine on the nothing more again

Having no alternative no other route

But to bring light on blindfolded brains


O sun I know you’re in a deep pain

On how we slaughter nature with our ways

But when you shine on the other side of the world,

Will you tell my lover that she’s my eternal flame

O sunwell, hear my words again

I know you’re the lordess of the flames

But what’s your light without the moon

As you can see I lost my moon in twain


Raise my astral body to the space

And may the angels take me to higher plains

To the density where poets are gods,

Where my poems won’t be in vain

Look at the cities from up high

And see how bright Algiers can shine ;

To tell myself that, you, where you are,

You are the most sparkling light.


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