Future is but a Shadow

December 1948

Sitting and Knocking, and Knocking,

and Knocking,

I Knocked all my life away

Sitting and Knocking, and Knocking,

and Knocking,

I saw every future ray ;

On the top of the cliffs

A shadow hands on hips

Was standing there astray..

I went to it nearer

As if awakened by a hearer

The shadow... passed away...

Sonia Zacharia

Lake

Andrée Chedid

Lake that remakes the tree or the face

With so much truth

With so little love

For love sings like a lie

Makes of the bird a legend

Of the tree a poem

And of a face, Love

Lake that froze the bird, the tree, or the face

Within their poor contours

Lake so heavy with truth

And so light with love

Do not gaze into the cold water of the lake

Bird, tree, or you, face

But go rather toward the eye of man

To live there all your lives

Desires

I would like two great wings

To know other skies

I would like, some evening, that butterflies

And eyes be mingled

I would like the flower to sing

To the bird while it sleeps

Despair to enchant me

The lamb to be the strongest

I would like to build dunes

To prefer the bitter to honey

To eat a crescent of moon

To drink a ray of sun

From desire to desire I wander

My thirst remains unquenched

My God, grant me on earth

A corner of your Paradise!

Gladys Melki

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