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

One Clay

 

...And are we all of one clay,

While everyone sings of their nights?!

Ah, ah..

stop, noble judge, stop!

For people do not like canned judgments,

Like their slender limbs,

Stolen from the coffers of yellow poverty

To beautify the bodies of the rich

And reshape them.

Open your eyes, O judge,

Alert your fingers...

And allow all the contestants to kick,

And no harm will befall you...

For the spectators cling to their right 

To entertainment...

Otherwise, the tournament will be cancelled...

Entertain them...

So that your words do not turn into fire...

And your clay into dust...

Give them good tidings,

That their minds are one,

And their clay is of different kinds!

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