ext_44800 ([identity profile] softlyforgotten.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] harborshore 2010-01-15 07:06 am (UTC)

OH and, 1200 year old Arabic poetry--

When I visit you, and the moon
Isn't around to show me the way,
Comets of longing set my heart
So much ablaze, the earth is lit
By the holocaust under my ribs.



-Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf
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