Why do we fear words
When among them are words like unseen bells,
Whose echo announces in our troubled lives
The coming of a period of enchanted dawn,
Drenched in love, and life?
So why do we fear words?
We took pleasure in silence.
We became still, fearing the secret might part our lips.
We thought that in words laid an unseen ghoul,
Crouching, hidden by the letters from the ear of time.
We shackled the thirsty letters,
We forbade them to spread the night for us
As a cushion, dripping with music, dreams
And warm cups.
Nazik Almalaika
Translated by Rebecca Carol Johnson
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