Beau Ahmad
What do you see and what the news from here and o'er the sea?
What is said in Paris, what said in Brussels, and done in Benghazi?
Sand dunes of cars and pickup trucks
wadis of oil and money,
wadis of fire and death,
the brave rebels stand by the sea:
Ma Ahsanuhum!
How beautiful they are!
And beau Ahmad, a skilled welder!
Drivers, refiners, mechanics:
Beau Ahmad captains them
along the metalled roads,
eating macadam kilometers;
bound for Sirte, the vipers’ nest
to overwhelm the Jinn
and stubborn men:
mercenaries of Gaddafi.
what do you see and what the news from here and o'er the sea?
what is said in Paris, what said in Brussels, and done in Benghazi?
Libya’s new army drives on;
rebels like locusts,
thick as the newly raised
upon that fateful Day to come!
Chase the dogs back to Tripoli’s
kennel, where their leader
grooms himself by Sidra
licking his wounds in solitude.
The mirage of midday flattens
down the fortress
of our schemes and hopes;
Lacking fuel, we move like camels
wounded in the hoof; noon… we pray
to God, the Clement;
fire rains from the sky
over the head of Ahmad, beau.
what do you see and what the news from here and o'er the sea?
what is said in Paris, what said in Brussels, and done in Benghazi?
---notes
why “beau”?
in the future, there will be epics celebrating the heroes of today, and they will be depicted as handsome and brave, and the villains will be craven and base. I’m just speeding it up. And “beau” is French because the future will be an amalgam of the past.
Ma Ahsanuhum means “how handsome (or perfect or well-formed or nice) they are”
There are various place name in Libya; Sidra is the Gulf off Tripoli.
Jinn are what we call genies. They are constituted from smokeless flame and are just below the angels.
The fateful Day to come is the day of resurrection.
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