Nizar Kabbani – A Man who Transforms you into Poetry

When you find a man
Who transforms
Every part of you
Into poetry,
Who makes each one of your hairs
Into a poem,
When you find a man,
Capable,
As I am
Of bathing and adorning you
With poetry,
I will beg you
To follow him without hesitation,
It is not important
That you belong to me or him
But that you belong to poetry.

Nizar Kabbani – A Man who Transforms you into Poetry
Translation by Bassam K. Frangieh
and Clementina R. Brown