MY GOD IS NEW TO YOU is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

I am not a phantom

 

-1-

Come...

Come...

For the stars have told the story of my love

To the silence of the nights

To the sorrow of the nights

And you are a mirage 

That passes through my mind

And vanishes in my mind...

-2-

You were so cruel to me

You made life groan...

Die...

And be buried in my eyes

Your cruelty...

Oh, if only I had never been anything!

-3-

My tears flowed despite the drought,

And they ran, tracing a wondrous path,

And proving that I have become a stranger,

And that I am a cloud passing through summer,

And raining down sorrowful tears of love.

-4-

I did not long for the long nights,

I am not a phantom,

Desired to vanish,

I am the poet of love,

And passion,

And beauty,

I live for beauty,

And I perish in beauty.

Come...

For my voice has grown hoarse,

And the shouting has grown weary. 

Come,

And I have spent the night 

I long for the whisper of supplication,

murmured each morning:

Come.

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