Maniacs is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English with introduction by Dr. Mostapha Helwe

Donate...

 

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Donate...

The child is hungry 

And our old man is homeless

And who is more generous 

And kinder than you?

O heart, wider than the widest world!

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Donate...

It doesn't matter if you are Muslim

Or Christian,

Lebanon is yours

No religion owns it! 

-3-

Dollar... ten... thousands... all good

The important thing is to stand strong 

Against the wind

That is tearing the homeland apart

And sowing ruin, tears, 

And suffering in its land

We strangle the crow of separation 

With our own hands

And quench the thirst 

Of our hands with its blood...

-4-

Donate...

There are people dying

From lack of medical aid

From injustice... 

Our homes without medicine or food

And we fear for our children

And you who live in exile

O light of my eyes

Every time Lebanon asks

You overflow with tenderness

And every time a person cries

You say: O my brother

Yes.. you became for the homelands

A divine blessing.

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Donate.

O heart, wider than the widest world.

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