Place

           Translated by Sayed Gouda

Inside the eye of your eye

I see that dark night coming from the moon

It wakes me up

I walk alone between love and death

In the darkness of a language I don’t comprehend

That dead soul grows

Amid the flowering shrubs next morning

A baby cries again under the collapsing sky

The dead love

Lives on, as usual

Helpless, I watch my own exhaustion

My dizzy longing

Hovering under your eyelids

My spirit, unrestrained

I bring it closer

Closer to you

Away from me

I can only watch myself from afar

See myself die

In your place

That doesn’t belong to me!

17/05/2008