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

Memory


No matter how far you go...

And how much the distances swallow the traces 

Of your footsteps,

You will remain a picture in my eyes,

A melody and a smile on my lips,

Which the lips of young girls will learn from. 

My heart has grown within you,

So, carry it as a memory to those lands...

It is all I possess in my exile!

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