“THE LIGHT OF SURVIVAL” by Angela Kosta

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The Light of Hope shines on the beloved land, 
furrowed by wounded edges where  poverty lives naked. 
There are undressed ladies
with wide open eyes  on the sidewalks full of corpses  
and anxiety is fed inside the garbage  with rotting food 
like stale bread crumbs 
as if they are for stray dogs. 

  But the Light of Hope triumphs.
It travels around the world on the paths 
where poor and sick people pass.
It passes there like a torchlight procession 
to tell the beloved Earth to stop suffering.
It feeds the poor in abundance
with the light of hope.   

The oceanic light emerges 
and fills the cracks 
in the souls of the sick,
wherever are there.   
By embracing the light,
everyone recovers from the evils of the century:  
Diseases and Poverty!
 
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Angela Kosta was born in Albania in 1973 and has lived in Italy since 1995. She is a translator, essayist, journalist, literary critic, editor and promoter. He has published 11 books: novels, poems and fairy tales in Albanian, Italian and English. Angela’s publications have appeared in various literary magazines and newspapers in: Albania, Kosovo, Italy, USA, England, China, Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Poland, Australia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, Tajikistan, South Korea, Hungary, India, Bangladesh etc. Angela translates and writes articles and interviews for the newspaper “Calabria Live”, Saturno magazine, the newspaper “Le Radici”, the international magazine “Orfeu”, Alessandria Today magazine, the Nacional newspaper, the Gazeta Destinacioni, the magazine Perqasje Italo – Shqiptare, the international magazine Atunis – Belgium, collaborates with magazines in Lebanon, International Literature Language Journal (USA), Morocco, Bangladesh, etc. Angela is Ambassador of Culture and Peace in: Bangladesh, Lebanon, Poland, Morocco, Canada, Algeria, Egypt, etc. Angela has been translated and published in 27 foreign languages and countries. In the second semester of 2023 alone, she was an author in 78 national and international newspapers and magazines with: poems, articles, interviews, and essays. You can follow Angela on Facebook.

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