Poem 127, Sonnet 62: God! I’m Home Poem by Samer Madbak

Too disinclined for further enterprise
Too spent the ship that cruised a thousand oceans
Too dense to sail the azure of your eyes
I scuttle, now, the fleet of my emotions
I founder till I rest upon your floor…
Embrace me in your billows, drag me down
I love to drown in you for evermore
And love you deeper as I deeper drown…
Enfold me, though my deck be watertight,
Buffet my sails, defeat my stalwart face
Your honeyed brine, my love, is pure delight
Diffusing through my pores, heavy with grace
I plummet in your heart, too tired to roam
Sleeping beneath your waters… God! I’m home!


Beirut
March 28th 1998