Ancient Migrant is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Mirna Nihme

KINGDOM OF TALK

-1-
I thought that I talked
But talk is a fog
I see it as I walk 
A shining spark of a match
-2-
Don't say that I heard
My talk is tangible
Its letters on a paper I gathered 
And I hung them in a pin, 
An icon on the chest of the universe
The colour in love with it 
And in it the perfume imprisoned.
-3-
In teary nights, 
I mixed from the soil of talk 
A human being
I ask: he answers 
I am sad: he reproaches me 
And draws in my Palm a kingdom 
Of smoky threads 
And says: Oh, my son,
You are the king
How beautiful you are, 
I threw the entire world 
In your hands to pass time
God created it complicated, 
Do not upset the lord
With your boldness, solve it.
-4-
I laughed when I said:
 I arrived
Where? Not known
And the path in front of me 
Compacted with my bones, 
With laments however I leaned 
It breaks my words 
With sighs which stood rows 
On my dreams beaches
And what a falling thought
Never after it a fall
Million small letters 
Gather as a guard 
On the sides of a tear
And boil my blood 
Increase my worry
How do I write quickly? 
And the age is a spark
How do I accompany the word? 
And the return is not safe!
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