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

My homeland, Lebanon

 

-1-

Oh, my homeland, what has become

Impossible to happen

Fire is reaping you

And hardship is enveloping you

In exile, night and day

We are drawing pictures

Of your mighty cedars

And of your humiliated people

Oh, my homeland, Lebanon

-2-

Two eyes are weaving you

With the spindles of joy

Two hands are writing you

On the pages of hope

No matter how much 

The raven of separation has flown 

And grew rich

Your land will remain for two:

God and us.

O my homeland Lebanon.

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