Refusal
by. Salha Obaid Ghabish
It is like the sound of a song
At the door of winter
Forsaken without a fireplace
Sleeping on the pillow of sorrow
With no blankets
Except some paper cuttings
Which were a notebook for recording her appointments.
A stranger in our town
It is said he is a legend that passed through
Close to our houses
Like an ever travelling nightingale
Searching for hearts silent like the desert
Still fearing the night and dreams
Fearing the pulse of rain
As if he looks like a man
And in it the two are looking for each other
Travels are tired of both of them
And so are roads
And all the maps of the world.
And if the two pulses do not unite into one
And if the song of love rejects them
The journey of the lovers
Will continue to refuse the principle of refusal.