His lights go out - Naji Haraba

He dims his lights Category: Poetry Author: Naji Haraba Row 4 What is the wound, I said? He said: A sting of longing And to my most miserable heart, the sweetest stabs And the poetry, I asked? He said: The knife of longing No lover lives without a knife He did not commit a sin Except the sin of love And it is our hope that he lives in distant prisons He met the belly of the whale In the Sea of Sails He has not yet found his pumpkin