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

The Last Day

 

Wherever I turn, I see the fog thickening

And rising, like an illusion, towards glory,

And the valley full of swirling mist

Will soon be empty,

And the hill covered with apple orchards

Will disappear from sight like the sun! 

For every visible thing, there is a veil behind which it hides,

And for every towering mountain, there is a valley

large enough to embrace it on the Last Day.

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