Here is my life and all that I require <br />The village, vale, this gorgeous greenery <br />Are sustenance, my heart’s machinery <br />Th’ingredients of delight, my sole desire <br />What else could I pursue, what more acquire <br />Sublimer than my Mother’s scenery? <br />My coffer’s full, my treasure plenary, <br />Care I for aught than this, my vast empire? <br />Oh loveliness occult, my heart’s release <br />Conceal me here away from urban broil <br />Replace with restful grace this tedious toil <br />And let me from your fairness gain increase, <br />Transplant my kernel in this sacred soil <br />Swamp me with silence, with Arcadian peace. <br /> <br /> <br />Blaouza <br />August 1st 1988<br /><br />Samer Madbak<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poem-037-sonnet-14-all-that-i-require/
