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

Orphan

 

Increase my passion, increase it

And stir, like a torrent,

The rock of my stillness

And remove the garment 

That once trembled from my eyes,

For I have been cured of the coldness

And know that I was raised without a mother

And I yearn for the wine of breasts

I lived as an orphan

O daughter of the hills

I never laid my head upon the flesh of arms

I desire warmth in a long night

I hated living alone in the wilderness

My companion the night

With its bitter cold

My companion is the lightning

With the crashing thunder

I exerted myself searching for a girl

And you were the one my efforts met

After the sighs

And the pure tears

Now I feel

What is the taste of existence!

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