They came from behind the wail of the sea

They gathered around the sandy table

And I sip the tenth cup

And the street embraces the black asphalt

And the sun hovers over the casino glass

The sun will not reach my dreams with cold extremities

They came like a kidnapper

They took the "poet" from me

I became incomprehensible

Unrealizable

Insensible

Tearless

They came..

And the rivers

Are now diverging

And the birds

Are planning to return

Her eyes were a piece of wave in a black mountain

Her feet were bare

I used to love the flowers kissing her feet

My flowers will not come out of her May

She was stretching before me like the river

She was diverging like a full moon from the night of sorrows

And all the rivers

Are now gathering on her breasts

And the street roars in my heart

So, I close the windows of time

And I drink from her palm

I sip the lines of life

And I spread her ten fingers

The sea water evaporates

Leaving the salts of the bottom for us

I plant between her green fingers

Minarets and a ship

I draw in her eyes

A statue of the departing sails

And I sing for freedom

They came behind me

In the form of a shoe polisher,

A seller of labneh and cigarettes

They stole from me "the poet"

They stole my feet

And they split in donkey carts

And in Mercedes cars

In the elevator of "the Cotton Palace"

And in the dollar prices

And inside the oil wells

They stole my pens

They cut off my hand

Then they gathered in the stock exchange

And they split ..

Then they gathered above my blood

Let it escape from my artery

Oh, this coagulated blood

The wind sings behind the cut trees

And the night asks me about my hand

About my hair ..

About a sun rising behind the towers

And you are singing in front of the club for the drunks and the killers

And I delude myself .. that you are mine

It was not the habit

To drink that coffee .. plain.