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

You’ll come back to me

 

-1- 

How can you live without me?

And your laughter can be heard from afar?!

Have you forgotten the sleepless nights 

At the harbor of my eyes?

Where our mornings used to awaken?

-2- 

And the jasmine tree that fell upon me?

And stirred my hands with its branches?

And whispered to me: Pick it a flower?

What can I tell it... 

When the wound is still in me?! 

-3-

And the restaurant that never left my mind

Despite how often we called out our names

I stopped going there... 

I was afraid it would become too good for me

Tell it the truth... 

And make it hate us

-4-

Live as you please... 

Wound the memory

You'll come back to me 

With overflowing tears

Your appearance tomorrow 

Will bear witness to me

And a handful of dust 

Will precede your return...

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