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Before you come

Aya Ibrahim

The sun
Will come back one day
Searching for meaning
Behind our daunting teeth
But dear Sun all the meaning
We swallowed, and all sentences
Are now gone, beyond recognition
Beyond the thin mucus of
Our priceless dry red hearts
We have searched before you
And we had hidden
What meaning and what hot
Sand grains, smelling like fire while
Igniting dust, what hard dead
Leaves, what sick old tree, what
Vague salt in a dying sea.
Yellow rays that swim in air
White teeth that swim in blood
Sun, oh, Sun, what meaning
You seek our dearest Sun
You have been there before us
Don’t you remember, when we
Buried death, when we watched
The last drop of water evaporate
And that huge red stain
On a horizontal earth

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