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

Dust

 

Strange is your dust, raining from my eyes,

Watering the moments of drowsiness 

So they overflow with the coming clamour.

Take sleep and grant me the blessing of waiting.

Pluck my dreams,

And leave me the burning passion of longing 

In my blood.

My destiny is confined in my estrangement,

Assassinating my contemplation

And the joy of the children residing in my depths!

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