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

My Enviers

 

My enviers have multiplied, O rose...

And I am alone like you,

The bees sting me after sucking my nectar!

How disgusting life is

When you embrace the butterflies 

With your lush petals,

And the scent of their mouth’s sneaks 

Through their panting breaths

To steal your joy! 

I have given them everything I own,

And yet you see them still coveting 

My very existence!

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