Rural Poems is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

Baptism of Love


We clung together, my beloved and I,

Seeking baptism in the dew,

Until the second watch of the night overtook us,

And the bat ceased its flight above our heads,

And our companionship.

She wept...

So, I urged her to weep profusely,

For I was captivated by the dawn breaking in her eyes!

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