Damascus

Arabic recitation of the first s from Nizar Qabbani’s “Damascene Poem”????????.???????????????????????????...???????????????????
 This is Damascus
 & this is a glass of spirit (comfort)
 i love - but im aware of the fact that
 certain kinds of love
 can slaughter you in their wrath
 I'm a Damascene being dissect me into halves
 & have not but grapes & apples fall in your path
 open my veins with scalpels
 hear ancestral chants
 if heart - transplants can
 cure some of the passionate
 why does mine stay torn in half then?
 minarets cryin tears of absence
 and like trees their souls speak
 years have passed them
 (you can hear them askin)
 for civil rights to live amongst
 tiers of jasmine
 as house cats take naps - relaxin
 "Es la cosa mas triste de este mundo
 Y asÌ me siento yo por ti solo por ti"
 (and this is how i feel for you)
 Arabic recitation of the first s from Nizar Qabbani’s “Damascene Poem”????????.???????????????????????????...???????????????????
 coffee grinders cracklin
 childhood reminders - back when
 how can i forget?
 when my reaction...
 to cardemom's strong fragrance
 yet & still finds attraction
 as proud fathers wait
 for a sweet daughter's face
 im askin...
 if my roots - heart - & language are here
 how am i supposed to make myself
 any more clear?
 is clarification necessary
 with love so dear?
 (so much so that there was no fear...)
 how many damascene bracelets were
 sold for this poetry here?
 apologizin to the willow
 wonderin' if my little siblings can hear
 my parts been scattered across coasts for years
 lanterns on horizons (floatin...
 saddened eyes had lost their hopes to see her...)
 "Es la cosa mas triste de este mundo
 Y asÌ me siento yo por ti solo por ti"
 (and this is how i feel for you)
 Arabic recitation of the first s from Nizar Qabbani’s “Damascene Poem”????????.???????????????????????????...???????????????????
 tossed around in shoreless oceans
 only to be hunted down by devils & demonic ghosts
 i battle garbage rap with prose & (rapid) flows
 thats apropos until nawar is open to em
 (thats fa sho!)
 identity of Arabness resemblin a widow though
 is there no festivus for the rest of us history books can show?
 what will remain of poetry's originality if so
 many a brown-nosing liar gets to have complete control?
 how we gonna ever write a to spit
 when killers still approach?
 i bore the burden of my words upon my back until i grieved...
 what shall remain of poetry when it is finally relieved?
 (the saddest thing in this world - my lady's - is knowin that we
 were meant to be from the very start but that we'll never be...)
 "Es la cosa mas triste de este mundo
 Y asÌ me siento yo por ti solo por ti"
 (& this is how i feel for you)
 Arabic recitation of the first s from Nizar Qabbani’s “Damascene Poem”????????.???????????????????????????...???????????????????