Nothing but light

High quality art print by 

Yasmeen Abdallah -

Nothing but the light

I did not stop my horse

Except to pick a red rose from 

Canaanite garden, I sed my horse

And fortified in my light:

’’Do not go in or go out’’…

I didn’t go in, I didn’t go out

She said: Do you see me?

I whispered: I lack, to know, a difference 

Between the traveler and the road,  the difference 

Between the singer and the songs…

I sat, like a letter from the alphabet, in her name

And a boot in my name

At the cross of meanings...

I won't be tomorrow

And I didn't stop my horse

Except to pick a red rose from

Canaanite garden, I sed my horse

And I went looking for my place

Higher and further,

Then higher and then further,

From my time....

Mahmoud Darwish