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

MY TEARS

-1-
If my tears were talk
I would not have tasted crying
But my tears a mirage
They roll disturbed
And on the cheek there is a door keeper
Who loses the battle,
Who opens the door for it,
It declares the law of the jungle
 And the kingdom falls
-2-
If my tears were a stone
I would not have hit people with it 
The stone would become a building 
A wide sight
So a small baby sleeps 
Carrying on its shoulders sleeplessness
And to cross out the misery of a mother heart
 Which was broken 
I will build a big wall 
Standing in the face of destiny
-3-
If my tears were wood 
I would have inflamed literature
And made from it a sword 
From it shines a flame
And erased the word: wrong
Wrong who wrote:
We protected the guest
We guarded the descent
We united winter and summer 
But we could not unite the Arabs
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