Your love taught me to grieve
and I have been in need, for centuries
a woman to make me grieve
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Barada, oh father of all rivers
Oh, horse that races the days
Be, in our sad history, a prophet
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I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady
should another give you a cloud
I give you rain
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The East receives my songs, some praise, some curse
To each of them my gratitude I bear
For I've avenged the blood of each slain woman
and haven offered her who is in fear.
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If you are my friend...
Help me...to leave you
Or if you are my lover...
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I wept until my tears were dry
I prayed until the candles flickered
I knelt until the floor creaked
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I conquer the world with words,
conquer the mother tongue,
verbs, nouns, syntax.
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(A Letter to a Man)
My dear Master,
This is a letter from a stupid woman
Has a stupid woman before me, written to you?
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My darling, I have much to say
Where o precious one shall I begin ?
All that is in you is princely
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In the blue harbor of your eyes
Blow rains of melodious lights,
Dizzy suns and sails
Painting their voyage to endlessness.
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