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

The Gardenia Flower

 

The garden weeps...

The garden weeps...

For the gardenia flower has withered,

And the water has dried up in its veins.

Why?...

Why, my Lord?...

And beauty is You,

And the cloud laden with rain,

Awaits a sign from You?!

Evaporate, say,

And pour down,

So that life may return to the flower.

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