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

My time

 

All paths are fraught with trials

Wherever we go, strife erupts

Killing has become our obsession today

Works and professions find pleasure in it

How many graves have become cities

When the cities expelled their inhabitants

Our morals, our thoughts, have withered

Like one enveloped by decay

Behold, a father whose tears are anger

He walks, and the shroud walks behind him

Even the mother's milk is depressed

Our hatred has surpassed the milk

Oh, how I wish my time would end

So, I could see what time leaves behind

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