Star of poetry is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English. Introduction by Dr. Mostapha Helwe

My flag

 

Hail, my flag!

In the United Nations

You flourish with our cedar

Soaring to the peaks

The weeping red

I colored it with my blood

And the complaining white

I sanctified it with my mouth

My land, though far away

My feet yearn for it

I run... but a grave 

Of nothingness precedes me

Our ancestors planted

Glory from antiquity

And today, my homeland

My illness assassinates me

I came as a stranger

Fearing the idol

A dream overwhelms me

Oh, my dream!

At night, pride

And tomorrow, my pain

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