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

The Malicious Faces

 

When the sun bowed to darkness,

I thought existence had vanished,

And the bird of love was bitten by the cold

In the northern regions.

Oof!

How much harm does darkness inflict,

Despite its stillness,

And its obscuring of the features 

Of the malicious faces I encounter,

Whenever a ray of light spills into the valley.

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