October




When all the dreams had died
and all the cars had crushed my lamp my bread
in mid-Autumn’s rain an empty night
you emerged you lost and scared
I accompanied you through dark alleys
under the water the leaves falling the ground was full
of yellow shadows
The two of us were sad
the two of us began to walk
unknown far away deep shoulder to shoulder
while drops of rain and joy were falling over
        our heads

Girl of water in your eyes a bitter tenderness
seeing off doves of fear messenger doves
that come to sleep silently in my soul
All the lost hours all the disasters
went falling behind You were there
in the middle of the night with something of a lamp in your hair
        in your voice

I don’t know you don’t know what dust your clarity is made of
and you are now like the star that has forever drowned
         in my blood



Fayad Jamis