Adnan al-Sayegh Poems

A difficult equation
To divide yourself between two girls
Between two countries
Of police and pineapples
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I proclaim : Tomorrow
I will stertch out over the spacious day,
Shaded by clouds instead of planes,
I will search among the bombs and the mud
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The moaning of the train kindles the sorrow of the tunnels
Roaring along the rails of everlasting memories
While I am nailed to the window
With one half of my heart
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I am emerging from the age of betrayals
Toward noble weeping for a verdant dream
Sown by pigs and vermin
I am entering the orbit of the poem
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Everty time a dictator falls
From the throne of history, embellished with our tears
I clap my hands until they glow red
But back home when I
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As he was delivering his lecture..
In the crowded hall
They were there
Patterning his corpse after the latest intelligence reports
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