Smile of Destiny
Poetry from Oman
When you smile from your heart,
Your destiny smiles for you
Like my destiny smiles only for me!
Why my destiny can’t smile for both of us?!
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A smile of destiny
That’s only for you
Can’t look like my other smiles
Can’t hide behind any clouds
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When you smile from your heart,
Your smile finds the way to my heart
Why your destiny doesn’t find both of us?!
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A chance of destiny
To me and you
Has just stolen a moment of smile
The one which was only one
That remained one for whoever waited for
Has just gone!
And no destiny remained for us!!
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My love
When my smile flies to the destiny,
The sky is NOT my limit!!
Appendix:
Whenever there is a pure beginning,
There is no end!
Am I looking for happy ending?
Or just accepting happy beginning?!
I thought I'm giving an opportunity to my destiny
But, there was neither opportunity nor destiny
Sorry to myself
It seems I just stolen one
The one which was only one
That remained one for whoever waited for
I wonder as you wonder
How far it’s real
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A morning smile
That’s only for you
Can’t look like any other one
A chance of destiny
A smile of destiny
About the Author
Lubna Al Balushi
Lubna Al Balushi, 31, is probably the frist Omani poet who has ever written in German. She studied German at the Goethe Institut in Muscat and won a scholarship to continue her studies in Freiburg, Germany. Back in Oman, she worked on her German skills on her own - and fell so deeply in love with the sounds and rhythms of this language that she started to use it to express her feelings. Her booklet "Schönheit des Herzens", Beauty of the Heart, is an exquisite collection of 54 poems, that opens up a "window" - as we say in German - to her soul. Now she has started to write in English as well to reach a broader audience.
Lubna has an MBA from the University of Bradford and works for a Swiss company in the Omani capital.
And: She loves the colour Pink. Pink, she says, is the colour of women, of beauty and happiness, and it is the colour of falling in love. She loves to dress in Pink and to think Pink - even more so, whenever she has been confronted with the darker sides of life .