Believe Me

I'm weary of love's exile—enough, I say,Take love as antidote—take it today;

Did I not tell thee I shall soon becomeA bird that soars within thy heaven's dome?

I'll scatter now the darkness of despair,And drive from thee, my love, thy every care;

I'll spread around thee perfume hoped and sweet,Dispelling what affliction did entreat;

I'll grant thy thirsty spirit tenderness,Spreading warm comfort through thy love's address;

Ask thou my Maker to watch o'er a flameOf passion seeking none but thy dear name;

God gave thee love from His own boundless store,Illuming darkness that thy world wore;

I scorn base love from spirits foul and base,Nor yearn for passion but thy purity's grace;

Sorrow departed—O most faithful friend,My bliss is but to see thee, comprehend;

To hear thy heart's pulse as it gently sighs,Embracing mine without a compromise;

Light's embrace of light, both pure and bright,Illumes the feelings of the lost in night.

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Poetic Heartbeats

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Publication date 1981

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Poems of the Book

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My Mother O My Mother Greetings, O My Mother Her Birthday My Mother, Arise Breath Returned Echo of Her Anguish Mothers Day Remembrance To My Mothers Soul When the Crescent Rose The Infant When He Spoke Carefree Childhood I Fear for You A Mothers Counsel A Mothers Forbearance After His Return Do You Hear Me, My Son? If Only You Knew Our Birthday Words of Reproach Between Doubt and Certainty The Captivating Prose Poem My Absent Brother Reproach to the Absent World of Delusions Who Am I? Between Despair and Hope A Colloquy From Beyond the Phantoms Adam Love A Nights Dream O Seller of Patience Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi A Poetic Crime From Beyond the Telephone The Captive Maiden Whispers of the Soul A Hearts Groan Companion of Youth After Youth O My Heart My Physician Private Supplication Sorrow The Cup Divination An Artists Wish To the Maiden Virgin My Solitude Breaths of Solitude The Convalescent Echo of Solitude My Testament With the Dawn O Night The Moon Springtide Inspiration of the Sea Circumambulation Reflection of a Phantom The Countryside Aswan, Bride of Upper Egypt The Parched Soul The Free Bird Purest Love The Canary Bird The Divorcee Birds of Autumn The Canary The Singer I and the Sea The Most Loyal of the Loyal From Mansoura, Bride of the Nile, to the Dam To Where? Confession The Shepherdess Salute to the Peace Conference To President Sadat Inspired by Unity To the Fighter The Martyr Inspired by the Battle To King Faisal To Jaafar Nimeiri Echo of the Foreign Tour Echo of the Tripartite Aggression O Cupbearer of the Soul Pioneer of the Free Voice of Egypt Egypt