An ode to love

An ode to love

Sameh Mahgoob
(Egyptian poet )
Translated by :
Hassan Hegazy (Egypt)


It looks as if you’re just coming out
from the legend
and it looks also as if I am there
taking care of moles in the gardens of Babylon
Wiping for the sun your brown hair,
flying butterflies between your breasts,
reading to the passersby the shortest
of the verses.
How can your nipples sleep outside the text?
How can edges live without memory?
How can memories betray the pictures?
How can dreams be completed like this
 without night, clouds or rain?
How can stone fall so on a stone?
All is yours, the hills and the pastures that
 have not slept yet, and the moles
when they cry between my lips
on the slope.