(for N___ A____ H____)
-REAL LOVE.
i see it all over and with
you,
all i ever need and want,
love so true;
i see it in your eyes all
aflame–
looking at you, inside I
ain’t the same;
maybe minds, Dearest,
but hearts know not
how to lie,
and so, Beloved, so
revered, I just
wouldn’t stand to lie
to My heart’s Beloved,
not to you,
i know language of
heart is true, sweet,
holy and so true–
let’s rejoice that we
finally found one
another;
for you and me,
Dearest, there’s no
other.
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, the poet was raised in a politically prominent family; yet in his early teens, the poet and his family emigrated to the United States, where the poet lived for nearly two decades. Kassim started writing and publishing poetry while in junior college, at a relatively young age, and almost spontaneously fell with poets and poems, and has so been ever since; particularly the Romantic poets–William Wordsworth, George Gordon, Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Shelley–drew his attention and engaged hìs intellect, so much so that, to this day, they represent more or less ‘the epitome’ of what Poesy means to him.The poet now lives in his land of birth and works as a freelance journalist and writer. Kassim is currently preparing manuscript of what he hopes to be his first book of poetry; the poet feels a particular attachment to John Keats and Percy Shelley for their vehement opposition to the inhumane effects on ordinary people such as the consequences of industrial development in their lifetimes–and reminds us that technological progress today does the same: ‘Weep, for the world is wrong!’ (emphasis supplied) (Percy Shelley, “Dirge”)