english arabic
 

Pills and a Talisman in the Migrant’s Pocket

 

Gibran Saad

 

If Sleep could be earned with a pill

We take and find rest

So that Dreams would be relieved from our dreams

 

If Nobility could be won with a pill—a dime

We take and give to people

So that we—and they—would remain noble

 

If Spring wouldn’t burst

From Zero Time

And from the hasty torment of beauty

…………

………

 

If it could be compressed into a pill

Whereby time would become

Timeless moments of Beauty

In the face of nullity

 

If Homelands

Had neither homes nor maps

 

If Childhood were a pill

We take

So that Eternity would be relieved from awaiting us

 

If I would live a hundred years

And see my father dying young

In his sixtieth birthday

Or

If my father would return from Death

So that Tragic Dreamers wouldn’t disappear

From Syria

 

If there were a pill for Crying

So that no one would see Her cry

Or

A pill for whores

So that no one would see them

Betray their Nakedness

………………

……………

 

O, Passerby pervading things, people and changes

Those are statures of wailing fortresses

Those are chariots of cold nudes and violins

Moving towards Nothingness

For the sake of Fire and Crying

For the sake of Strangers omitted from their memories

Pray for us

While we sing our destinies

O, god of Escape

August 2002

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Translated from Arabic by Dimitri Avghérinos

 

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