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Between us	A
twenty years of age	B
between your lips and my lips	C
when they meet and stay	D
the years collapse	E
the glass of a whole life shatters	F
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The day I met you I tore up	G
all my maps	E
an my prophecies	H
like an Arab stallion I smelled the rain	I
of you	J
before it wet me	K
heard the pulse of your voice	L
before you spoke	M
undid your hair with my hands	N
before you had braided it	O
	-
There is nothing I can do	J
nothing you can do	J
what can the wound do	J
with the knife on the way to it	O
	-
Your eyes are like a night of rain	I
in which ships are sinking	P
and all I wrote is forgotten	Q
In mirrors there is no memory	K
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God how is it that we surrender	R
to love giving it the keys to our city	K
carrying candles to it and incense	S
falling down at its feet asking	P
to be forgiven	Q
Why do we look for it and endure	T
all that it does to us	A
all that it does to us	A
	-
Woman in whose voice	L
silver and wine mingle	U
in the rains	V
From the mirrors of your knees	H
the day begins its journey	K
life puts out to sea	K
	-
I knew when I said	W
I love you	J
that I was inventing a new alphabet	X
for a city where no one could read	W
that I was saying my poems	Y
in an empty theater	R
and pouring my wine	Z
for those who could not	A2
taste it	O
	-
When God gave you to me	K
I felt that He had loaded	B2
everything my way	D
and unsaid all His sacred books	C2
	-
Who are you	J
woman entering my life like a dagger	R
mild as the eyes of a rabbit	D2
soft as the skin of a plum	E2
pure as strings of jasmine	Q
innocent as children's bibs	F2
and devouring like words	G2
	-
Your love threw me down	H2
in a land of wonder	R
it ambushed me like the scent	I2
of a woman stepping into an elevator	R
it surprised me	K
in a coffee bar	J2
sitting over a poem	E2
I forgot the poem	E2
It surprised me	K
reading the lines in my palm	K2
I forgot my palm	K2
It dropped on me like a blind deaf	L2
wildfowl	U
its feathers became tangled with mine	Z
its cries were twisted with mine	Z
	-
It surprised me	K
as I sat on my suitcase	M2
waiting for the train of days	N2
I forgot the days	N2
I traveled with you	J
to the land of wonder	R
	-
Your image is engraved	O2
on the face of my watch	P2
It is engraved on each of the hands	N
It is etched on the weeks	Q2
months years	R2
My time is no longer mine	Z
it is you	J

Nizar Qabbani

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