My flag takes sides

with no fraternal pact.

It flutters alone,

my songs a faction in themselves.

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Here I am mobilizing the flowers, enlisting the trees.

The sky I redesign in colonnades.

I experience love. I live. I'm born into words.

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Here I am rounding up butterflies

under the auspices of morning.

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I nurture the fruits.

We go home for the night, the rain and I,

home in the clouds with their bells, home in the sea.

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Here I am launching the stars and fastening them down,

proclaiming myself king over the winds.

                       

                                                       —— Adonis أدونيس