merchants

Marchant

dans une cité de marchands

Ancien village portuaire

marché, bazaar, péninsulaire

Une culture jadis nomade

de chevaux, de tapis, et de sabres

De sultans voulant coloniser

ces terres stratégiques

profitables

Jadis nomades,

d'un coup de force

Ils établirent les citadelles

montèrent la garde

et défendirent leur port

pour défendre leur art

celui du commerce

celui de l'échange

Eating "Fish and Bread" on the water... 

One of my favorite sights
they are everywhere
ready for your ablutions

Don't get me wrong

If I "ponder" a lot

If I "ambivalence" a lot.

I am deeply in love with this Experience

I like this wandering and strolling

in the meta-physical bazaar

where I don't understand what people are saying

where I hear cryptic sounds

spilling out of their mouths

hands moving, smiles 

and bursts of laughter

Babel, animated,

While I sit watching,

Full of wonder.

And I can newly see

that my daily interactions, as a tourist,

as a passerby, an other

is also an opportunity

to engage with strangers

to see into an other

and to let them see me  

But they ask:

"what do you do back home?"

And I explain that I'm in between homes,

that I'm searching,

that I have studied... life

that I'm still studying.

And they say it's a good life

and they envy me. 

"If you only knew…"

says a voice inside

The path of a joker is no pleasure cruise

although it is blissful

it is also lonely

What do I do?

I translate, I mediate,

I meditate, I write...

Inside the Great Palace.