فالريح معكْ!

Here you are, courting a language
that expanded because of you
and with you
You two never parted
Her wings and yours never parted
A secret between you and her
that is older than the Book of Genesis
and deeper than the layers of the earth
and beyond a curious star
It tries to look across one sky
two skies
What did this language say?
And what did you say
as you were hunting infinities
that travel in the heart of a dry land?
And a drop of dew
started to take shape in the heart of the night
to show its clarity in the wet dawn
It kept asking:
What did the commune explode in its suffering under the letter  
The necks of lilies were stretching
and jumping over the fence of darkness
snatching its joy from perfume's talk
the smell of youth
or a birth of light
from some buds starting to open
to pour the first secret in the universe
A love poem, raining
from between the burning fingers
of a lover's hand
who did not extinguish the longing of his pen
Or light
rising from behind the walls of darkness
shaking the darkness of tyranny
for the beauty of the mind to shine among people
Or a passer-by staggering
in a journey through a confused universe
wishing a stroke of light
or a glimpse of a saving lightening
with "when?" and "perhaps!"
What is left when the letter is dry
and the words are chaos!
and the crows of black envy are croaking!
and throats trained by hired cheerers
looking for distorted meaning
and residues of sick thinking
Jungles, and the wolves of the night are howling
Rocks stop the running water
and the neighing sound of the river
Spiders lying on the roads
spat their dictionaries
and striped naked in the horizon of their ugliness
and went stealthily
But your faith
saves and enriches you
and weaves from visions
and lines of the high star
and a ray of the truthful dawn
a harmonious necklace, how differently it always appears
in the circles of the eyes
But it never changes
never, in the circles of the hearts!
How can it betray its own features?
Or go randomly?
Give the wind your brave sail
and hold in your hand your promised lover
Blow from your spirit into her
until she rises from her fall and waves to you
For wind is with you!

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