The Ruins
My heart, don't ask where the love has gone It was a citadel of my imagination that has collapsed Water me and let me drink of its ruins And tell the story on my behalf as long as the tears flow Tell how that love became past news And became a matter of the subject of pain I haven't forgotten you And you seduced me with a sweetly-calling and tender tongue And a hand extending towards me like a hand stretched out through the waves to a drowning person And a light searching for a wanderer But where is that light in your eyes? My darling, I visited your nest one day as a bird of desire singing my pain You've become self-important, spoiled and capricious And you inflict harm like a powerful tyrant And my longing for you cauterized my ribs (soul or insides) And the moments were embers in my blood Give me my freedom, release my hands Indeed, I've given you yours and did not try to retain anything Ah, your chains have bloodied my wrists Why are they still there when I no l...
