LOVE MELODY is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

Where is your half?


-1-

Where is your half, 

Where is it?!

Words that won't leave my mind

Made the black of my eye

Turn white in the nights

Its scope is wider than mine.

And I became afraid 

My imagination would fall

And get lost between me 

And two hands.

Upon their palms is my burden

And a heart waiting 

for the appearance of my child!

-2-

I sat there chatting alone:

I'm cut off,

And carrying the torment of two

And every time my candles flicker

They flicker in two halves?!

-3-

Half of me is with you... a guess

And I don't know who you are!

You were created for me years ago

And your years were delayed

And I've been waiting for a lifetime

To be adorned with arches

Broken-hearted

With the blossoms of your jasmine.

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