My darling, I have much to say <br />Where o precious one shall I begin ? <br />All that is in you is princely <br />O you who makes of my words through their meaning <br />Cocoons of silk <br />These are my songs and this is me <br />This short book contains us <br />Tomorrow when I return its pages <br />A lamp will lament <br />A bed will sing <br />Its letters from longing will turn green <br />Its commas be on the verge of flight <br />Do not say: why did this youth <br />Speak of me to the winding road and the stream <br />The almond tree and the tulip <br />So that the world escorts me wherever I go ? <br />Why did he sing these songs ? <br />Now there is no star <br />That is not perfumed with my fragrance <br />Tomorrow people will see me in his verse <br />A mouth the taste of wine, close-cropped hair <br />Ignore what people say <br />You will be great only through my great love <br />What would the world have been if we had not been <br />If your eyes had not been, what would the world have been?<br /><br />Nizar Qabbani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-brief-love-letter/
