فتحي مهذب - الملعون Damned.. ترجمة: د. يوسف حنا

Fathi Muhadub
Damned
From Arabic Dr. Yousef Hanna / Palestine



(To the soul of our great master Mohamed Eid Ibrahim)

Every rose, I touch with my fingers, faints
Or goes crazy...
Even the lone tree in the house,
Was not spared of snipers’ bullets
She died at the height of January.
I know I'm damned
I know I'm damned
I know that the ivory face with wrinkles,
The face that looks out to me from the balcony
Is disgusting and nauseous...
Like the face of a dead chariot driver
It is the face of premature aging
Who, with a bundle of rusty nails,
will strike his nihilistic mask in front of my face
I know how much that deer suffered when I was born
Her husband disappeared in the fog
She remained surrounded by wolves, killers, and abusers of beautiful things.
She breastfeeds me in the evening in a narrow cave decorated with bats and lizards.
Whenever I cry, she lets me listen music interlude
From the creaking of her fragile joints.
And when the wolves howled in the adjacent apartment,
She put a worn rag on my mouth...
They assassinated my beautiful deer in the rainforest
I came of age with my brothers, the lizards, bats and spiders.


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