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

My Shroud

 

It is my fate... to remain in my exile,

Sewing with my eyes a pale shroud,

Choosing between one soil and another!

My shroud... longs for my soil,

And my homeland is far away and imprisoned,

fertilized by my people 

With their lethargy and submission,

So, the thieves confiscated it.

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