Fatima Alzhara Rafa

Divine Love
Love is a weapon inside me.
Love is a dove of peace that flies beside me.
Love is the white veil of a wedding bride.
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They asked if I lived in a third-world country.
I giggled and sobbed and then—
I said yes.
And they said, 'Which one? '
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A tear is a right
& so is speech, or silence.
Is this ache in my heart
from whom my heart was once an asylum?
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Miracles come from the Lord—
in a blink of an eye, at your door.
She turned her face and said: 'I am old.'
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& when Fatima speaks,
the blooms dance on the lemon tree.
& when Fatima laughs,
the bees start laughing with glee.
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Kafka said: 'In the war with you against the world, support the world.'
I was young when I first read it,
and as time passed, I understood its burden.
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You can feel it
it's not your psyche, not your soul,
it's not familiar at all.
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Traveled searching for a land
Eve and Adam found love then.
Erikson found America by chance
or by yearning for a land,
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To have XX in your chromatid—
to be just there and wait,
grateful as a lady for your fate.
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Have you lost faith in love?
Then you have lost faith in God.
Do all the doors you seek are locked?
The greatest gate is your heart.
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The brain—it is a really important usage,
but we can't go only with logic.
I think everything must be used:
in the eternal project,
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Where does all the pain go?
Mary felt it under the tree,
Jonah felt it inside the whale,
and Joseph—the finest of tales.
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Every night I tell a story
for you so I can keep my life.
A thousand nights have been upon me
for you, so you can forget your first wife.
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Here they stand
on moving sand—
they cannot comfort the whale
while they stand outside the sea.
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Honey bee, I love thee—
till they see
I'm a human being.
I'm not a toy, neither Marilyn.
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You're studying the human heart what about mine
What about my wild loving heart who adores your smile
Do you have a dual?
Do you have someone who came before me and grabbed your soul
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I have no other place to be
Except for my prayer place
Because in the OR
She's gonna be scared
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I'm human, and I'm not a god.
I can't beat every odd.
I can't help it when you say
your lack of perfection isn't for me.
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And if you pray
You may pray for that pain to go away
From both of us
And this happiness that supposed to occur now may visit us
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أنا بشر، ولستُ إلهًا.

لا أستطيع التغلب على كل الصعاب.
لا حيلة لي حين تقول
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