If you are my friend... <br />Help me...to leave you <br />Or if you are my lover... <br />Help me...so I can be healed of you... <br />If I knew.... <br />that the ocean is very deep...I would not have swam... <br />If I knew...how I would end, <br />I would not have began <br /> <br />I desire you...so teach me not to desire <br />teach me... <br />how to cut the roots of your love from the depths <br />teach me... <br />how tears may die in the eyes <br />and love may commit suicide <br /> <br />If you are prophet, <br />Cleanse me from this spell <br />Deliver me from this atheism... <br />Your love is like atheism...so purify me from this atheism <br /> <br />If you are strong... <br />Rescue me from this ocean <br />For I don't know how to swim <br />The blue waves...in your eyes <br />drag me...to the depths <br />blue... <br />blue... <br />nothing but the color blue <br />and I have no experience <br />in love...and no boat... <br /> <br />If I am dear to you <br />then take my hand <br />For I am filled with desire...from my <br />head to my feet <br /> <br />I am breathing under water! <br />I am drowning... <br />drowning... <br />drowning...<br /><br />Nizar Qabbani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/letter-from-under-the-sea/
