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

Your love is dead


-1-

Your love is dead, 

I buried it with my own hands

On the shores of my sleepless nights

No stars tickled

No verses sang

It poured out in a song.

-2-

Your love is dead. Why?

And the sky was lit

And an unstoppable army 

Standing at its door 

Its weapon was a thousand journeys

And drawings and stories

And kisses that sparked fire

And drove nights mad.

-3-

Your love died, 

And its years ended

And its dreams were extinguished

Leaving its lovers

To build houses, 

Grilled with gardens

And drown in silence

More beautiful than the stories...

-4-

I won't say: I regretted it

I won't say: I cried

But when I got up

I walked on the wound in my heart

And I screamed from my anguish

The scream of a mad child:

Oh, my life is ending

Oh, your cursed love...

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