LET ME REJOICE

By Charbel Baini

Translated by Mirna Nehme

-1-

For the first time in two years 

I sense the taste of happiness

The world hit me with an eye, 

Hurt me, and after a month it came, 

To embrace me and healed its wounds

-2-

Let me rejoice people 

And wipe from my cheek the tear 

If you taste the bitterness of the cup 

Which I drank in the darkness of days 

You would summarize the age in a week

-3-

Wishing someone to install me a wing 

And fly me in the high

I want to overcome winds 

Which blew in my eyes dust 

And threw me in the hardest situation

-4-

Wishing someone to sing me a song 

And play me music

Escaping from death's hands

And lying under the sun 

Sucking the light from its veins

-5-

High and proud

 Even I am a human being 

Which does not believe in daybreak

I fought hatred with faith 

I stole it from the convent's incense 

And burnt it, to scent the air

-6-

Congratulate me; congratulate the oppressed 

Who never in his age tasted mercy

The clouds started again to gather 

Promise a season of plenty 

And pour on the earth the grace

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