Feel Free
written by: Souad Zakarani
Like the bird of your soul
Locked in the cage of everyday life
Behind the bars of coercion.
From the depths rises into your brain,
How can it sing again?
Who will give it freedom?
Who will open the bars?
New things urge you to try.
Find the way to freedom
and fly, fly, fly…
You want to explore other dimensions,
in unknown circles,
far away from the grey life
and prove yourself.
In the darkness of the night
in an unguarded moment
the bird could escape.
Show what is unexplored,
growing and stirring within you,
hidden for far too long
Cherished deep within.
Release it like a bird
that flies light as a feather in the sky,
so that your suppressed desire
may finally find its freedom.
Souad Zakarani is a Casablanca-based poet, translator and writer. Her first publication by Brentano Gesellschaft was quite the experience that improved her writing process. She writes in four languages, capturing the beauty of fleeting moments with gentle contemplation. She is currently working on her first poem collection "Rosentropfen.” She develops a style that aims to blend traditional form aesthetics with contemporary sensibilities, always striving to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Anthologies in Austria, Germany and Spain.
