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

The Loud Voice

 

1-

My voice is very loud, 

O my wounded homeland

It roars through the nights

That wound you deeply

And scribbles your name like an image

On the hands of the world

And the wind colours you

2-

I am trying to gather a star

O my homeland Lebanon

So that with its light

I may pierce the darkness

Sown wherever it may be

And let the people see

What is hidden to Revealed

And the Human Being Within You

-3-

The Years You Lived

I Don't Consider Them Years

I Saw Them, I Saw Them

Hennaing Your Forehead

And Telling You: 

You Are the Remaining One

In the Rocks and the Streams

And in the Hearts of the Forgotten

-4-

You Are the Greatest Dream

And the Unharvested Fruit

O Spring That Gushes Out

From my eyes to my cheeks

If Time fades away

And what was will never return

I will remain the loudest voice

And the universe is my domain

And your boundaries are my boundaries!

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