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

You burned me with your light


-1-

Hide your face from my eyes

You burned me... 

You burned me with your light

I run away from you... but I can't

Escape the scent of your incense

Oh, church in a forgotten village

In times of hardship, 

I return to visit you

-2-

I loved you... 

And love is a story

Scrambled on the pages of notebooks

Its end is its beginning

And its beginning is my heart waiting

O sweeter than the sweetest verse

Let me travel in your eyes

-3-

Your love is more precious than my days

And my heart is broken for your love

I draw your image in my dreams

And I braid your hair with flowers

And on my arms when you sleep

Light shines from your face

-4-

I walk your paths with pleasure

And the thorns on your paths Flowers

I saw you, proud of yourself

And your lips were dripping with tears

I wove you a woollen sweater from my skin

And kept you warm 

For the rest of my life

-5-

Your voice makes my senses dance

I'll hold your voice forever

In my hands. 

And let my breath

Tune it from the unbelievable

A note.. 

With the hymns of a mass

Planted by our hands in the fields...

-6-

When you're gone... my thoughts

Wound my mind and become

Adrift, my poems' boat

In seas of turmoil

Where my flowers wither

And I'm still in the prime of my life... 

So young!

-7-

Oh, all the sweet words

From you, no sound comes out

With a word... 

You give me back my strength

With just four or five letters

"I love you"... 

Oh, my darkness, shine

And escape from my light, 

Oh, sun

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