When I love you <br />A new language springs up, <br />New cities, new countries discovered. <br />The hours breathe like puppies, <br />Wheat grows between the pages of books, <br />Birds fly from your eyes with tiding of honey, <br />Caravans ride from your breasts carrying Indian herbs, <br />The mangoes fall all around, the forests catch fire <br />And Nubian drums beat. <br /> <br />When I love you your breasts shake off their shame, <br />Turn into lightning and thunder, a sword, a sandy storm. <br />When I love you the Arab cities leap up and demonstrate <br />Against the ages of repression <br />And the ages <br />Of revenge against the laws of the tribe. <br />And I, when I love you, <br />March against ugliness, <br />Against the kings of salt, <br />Against the institutionalization of the desert. <br />And I shall continue to love you until the world flood arrives; <br />I shall continue to love you untill the world flood arrives.<br /><br />Nizar Qabbani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-love-you-5/
