of the best freinds: a fan of reading novels,but an avowed poet too. .

A Plea From Virgin Land.



Let me die unchristened,
A nameless barbarian of old times
Unmolested and unchastened
For loving nature's old rhymes.

Keep your unchaste missionaries
From stiffling my liberty,
Counting my sins on their rosaries
And preaching terror and impurity.

Let me savour life the way I please.
A merger of man and virgin land,
A lover of the soft-hearted breeze.
The singing bird's best friend.

Let's live our lives each his own way:
Keep your civilisation and I my nature.
Let me live ,as I do,in the day
And I let you ,as you do,worry over the future.

January 13th,2002.
Mustapha EL GHAZI
elgm@37.com