My crutches

There, I walked with Nabatians in Petra

By: Ali Taha Alnobani

© 2011 by THE BIRD

My crutches:

You shared me all my life

But I didn't

I was a bird

My wings shared the love rhyme

To take a look before the adventure

To have love forever

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My desire is wider than the open sea and the sky

Feathers which grew on my two crutches

Drank the wind like a roaring waterfall

I can understand the madness

I can live in a wild flower

Then fly with the pollen

To taste the remote ports

And breathe like sails

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The story started in a remote forest

When a strange man was chopping the wood

Then a crazy magician puffed on them to be crutches

Till that moment, I had no wings

But the feathers grew from my soul in a very cold night

The fire shaped me to be a love bird

Singing once and traveling an other

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"you are mad" said the trees

My face, my neck, were nervous

And afraid of squeeze

The long days became short

And my desire is as wide as the seas

I couldn't escape

But I knew life more and more

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Inside me

There is a cave of horror echo

A voice asked me to try

To go out

To have a moment with the vast sky

Angels and monsters are living together

An angel upstairs

A monster downstairs

None sees the other

But the bird

Can draw his mad city

Despite the long roads

And the dark cave

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My crutches

I'm the heart of the earth

And you are my sail

To draw the life taste

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And you

Believe me; start now

There are many things to do

For the sake of love and life

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