Above the hazy sky

The snow has melted

And the new April’s dawn has arrived

The hazy sky , still covering our heads

And the ground kept carrying us

The evening breeze wrapped us gently

Although you aren’t there

I’m totally fine

As you said once:

The pale stem can turn green

Ans the small grass can withstand the winter wind

Flowers’ buds can grow in the midst of the ice

So I believed

That

I can live once again

Happily , without you

-Sawsan

I was almost dead
Gently opened my heart
to let light pass
my heart back to beat

I fell again
despaired, unwanted to stand
carried me
tenderly rose me up
I was able to comeback upon my feet


lost my way
my eyes can only see the darkness
but tightly held me
and guided me with your precious light
to where the sun shines !

then tell me
pleas answer me
how can my heart beat without you ? how to see the light ?
and you were my eyes , light and  only love !

-Me

you thought that I would hold you and cry
but unfortunately , I smiled ,waving my hands

you wanted me to beg you
to stay by my side
you didn’t know I was waiting all the time to be released

did you think , seeing your shadow growing and your feet stepping away from me
will kill me, break my heart , or shed my tears ?
I’m really sorry
I disappointed you
but I’m more happier than I was those days

I started to find myself
and the morning is much more brighter
and the darkness isn’t that scary anymore
 
I’m really grateful
to break up with you
I’m now stronger than I used to be
and I believe
Succession of mornings will carry a new love 
because life has to continue
and the sun still shining
the moon will keep lighting the night
with the lonely stars
the small bud will grow amidst the winter
the grass will push the ground to fly
and December’s winter
will be melted soon
with April’s breeze

thank you
I’m grateful

-Sawsan

watching your back going so far of me
looking at your shade growing in the ground
as a wintry wind
as the sand in the hand
you vanished


remembering your smiley face with dimples
wanting to hear your voice so gentle
your light is so bright
you suddenly knocked my mind

love you that I could fly where you are

as the sun goes down
as the night chasing dawn
you’re still the seed of love
the bud of hope so pain
 I Miss you so I could cry now
-Sawsan

doctorswithoutborders:

Haiti’s Rainy Season Brings Cholera Back to Port-au-Prince and Léogâne

With the rainy season now underway in Haiti, MSF has seen an increase in the number of cholera patients. Admissions to MSF’s treatment centers in Port-au-Prince and Léogâne have more than tripled in less than one month.

New patients arrive daily at MSF’s cholera treatment centers (CTCs). A woman named Marie was admitted to the Martissant CTC on April 16. “I had diarrhea and was vomiting a lot, then I fainted,” she recounted. “A relative brought me here because it is the center closest to where I live. The doctors told me that I had cholera and was dehydrated.” One hundred thirty-four other people like Marie arrived at the MSF center in Martissant between April 16 and 23 and nearly 400 more went to MSF’s other CTCs in Port-au-Prince and Léogâne.

“Cholera is easy to treat but specialized treatment centers must be accessible and patients must be brought there as soon as possible once symptoms appear,” says Dr. Sophie Duterne, MSF’s medical coordinator in Haiti. “If left untreated, this disease can kill within a few hours. Treatment involves simple oral or intravenous rehydration, with antibiotics for the most severe cases. However, taking additional hygiene precautions and drinking disinfected water is still the best protection.” Since the first cases were identified in October 2010, more than 500,000 Haitians have contracted cholera.

Photo: Haiti 2012 © Mathieu Fortoul/MSF Cholera patients recover in MSF’s Martissant CTC.

to let go of me
thanks I feel more free
just like a blue bird
that found his way
to fly out of the cage

thanks for your absence
that let me notice my presence
because when you were there
I wasn’t able to see anyone beside you

thank to your farewell
I start to love me more
now „ the new morning
is all for me alone !
and the coffee’s cup we used to drink
it’s for me alone


thank you for letting go of me
it taught me a lot
that , breaking up make me much more stronger
and I finaly start being myself
honestly and sincerely
admiring me
thanks
I’m so grateful
-Sawsan Amir

you turned your back to me
and stepped ahead to the sunset
your shadow was growing
as you went far and far away from me

all I remember
is some of your words
that taught me to hold on
and keep walking although
my tired limbs

your words were the light for me
they created wide wings
and carried me from the mud
tiny hope born in my wounded chest
when I remembered your smiley face with dimples

thank to you
I can see tomorrow well

rather than you are not being here by my side
and all my memories are about the “goodbye’s day
the nights still reviewing my sadness over and over again
and I used to wake up with sheding tears on my rosy cheeks


but these tears are all I have to go ahead
one day they will turn into jewels
as your words turned into light
-Sawsan Amir