I
My first loose
Doctor Najlaa Taman
Translated by Badia Benmrah
I love you
I felt it
I said it
I wrote it
On the air
And I forgot
That air is like water
it does never preserve names
I wrote it on the paper
And I forgot that paper
Is poets coffin
I wrote it on the sands
And the angry waves erase it
I wrote it on the beach rocks
But it became imposible
Between refugees gulls
I took it on my back
And walked
But neither my back
Nor my heart
Could bear it
i do not stop walkiing
And whine continue
I do not let my heavy
hid down