Alif Laila “Poem”
It was the One thousand and one Arabian night on Valentine’s Day
She said, “Tomorrow morning the birds will sing and your thoughts will sink”
Let no morning ever come before my eyes O God
Let no bird sing before me O World
Let no sorrowful boats sink O love
Let my thoughts sail into melancholy
Let all my nights turn into one of those Arabian nights forever and ever
Sway! Sway like the lazy oceans hugging the shores
Sing like Dean Martin “stay with me, dance with me, dear but my eyes will see only you
I can hear the sound of violins long before it begins
Sway me smooth, you know how, sway me now
Hasich
