Category: Poetry and Lyrics
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سألبسك الورق
لا قصيدة تستطيع انتزاعي من بين أحضانك أن تبعد يدي عنك أن تنتزعني من عالمك لأجعلها لأكتبها …لألدها كيف تنافسك قصيدة؟ كيف تنتزع منك الدفء لترتديه؟ كلّ مرة أردّد: …لا قصيدة تستطيع انتزاعي من بين أحضانك كلّ مرة أسلخ نفسي عنك بتهمة قصيدة كلّ مرة أعدُني أنها المرّة الأخيرة، القصيدة الأخيرة لكنك أنت تجذب القصائد،…
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This is a place where one waits.
I. 1 This is a place where now is an eternity. 2 This is a place where one waits because, certainly,3 A place where everything is about to happen yet nothing really happens.4 Where one waits to wait, because one knows that everything that is about to happen will never really happen.5 This is a…
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The Tango
He said it takes two to tango,But left her spinning in a storm of her own steps. She began with the opening walk—Slow, deliberate.Her body an invitation,Her eyes locked on his,Waiting for him to claim the lead. But he hesitated at the threshold,Fear pooling in his chest like poison,While she extended her leg—A bridge he…
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She, the Cathedral
She lit every roomwith oil and bone,hung her ribs like chandeliers,invited him to kneelin the cathedralbuilt from her wounds. Her voice echoed,like wind through crypts,soft, but sharpened by survival.She was still.Not dormant—divine.A storm cloaked in prayer. But he—he took the easy way out.Slipped through a crack in the wallbefore the house could speak,before the pipes…
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هذه هي الحياة
…هي الحياة ،ترهقني، تستنزفني، لكنها تثير جنوني ولا تنفك تدهشني .بروعتها وترويعها، بعظمتها وتفاهتها ،عظيمة هي حين تميتك لتحييك ،حين تضحكك وهي تبكيك .حين تنتشلك من الجحيم إلى النعيم بومضة عين …هي الحياة ،ازدواجية الذات وتعددية النغمات ،تراقصنا على اختلاف السيمفونيات ،فنتمايل مع منحنيات أرواحنا .تارةً ساجدين، وتارةً ثائرين …هي الحياة ،فصولٌ متداخلة في أنفسنا،…
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Love Sick
I have a fever that is you. Feel my lips, look at their blue, Touch my skin, how it burns too, Hear my heart, how it pumps for you. I have a fever; I have fallen ill. You are the disease, baby, you are the pill. A virus creeping under my skin, Your love is…
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It Hurts
It hurts—my heart, a red bruise swelling beneath my skin,tight like a scream trapped in the throat of a dream.It coils in the ribcage,a beast pacing, pacing,snarling at the hollow where your name once curled,like smoke after rain. It hurts—my soul,like a flame-colored leaf,falling in the middle of summer,out of season,out of place,spun by winds…
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My Lighthouse
My lighthouse shone bright, It guided my path. It was a focal point, Never knew wrath. Resilient it stayed, As the waves ran high, But one wave dared— With my lighthouse to try, And demolish everything, In the blink of an eye. I lost my lighthouse, The guide and the path, The safety it brought,…
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Belonging to Nowhere Land
A lonely soldier, Nowhere to belong, Serving at sea, Awaiting none. Marching through the waves, Alone at night, No trees, no soil, No creature of any kind. No one can see you, Sweating blood, Counting the distant lights, Forming lines as tears come. You remember your grandma, With her silver hair, She told you all…
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The Voyage
…I gasp for air; for breath… I blow out my dear life, and gulp down my salty death… I can no longer fight the wind, the waves, the monster, the tide… So, sleep my heart! You too, my restless mind. Now my body shall never in this lifetime be mine. Now my screams, forever silenced…
