TAGHRID BOU MERHI

MAZES!

He didn’t leave a maze

without treading it

He would collapse exhausted

into the faces of worn-out bags!!!

He searches for land leaning on the pedestals of the noble city!!

Amidst departure, he devoured the body of sin and delved into longing..!

And since then, tears have not stopped on the cheeks of the sad owner..!

Mothers nailed to the wall of wishes pointed their fingers into the void of places..

They resemble thoughts when they glide in Mozart’s music

and inhabit the dreams’ breeze..!

Was this a delirium, the audacity of mazes..!?

Perhaps the alphabet will change the essence of the universe..!!

Perhaps it will donate in writing the psalms of love in the sight of creation

and the successive strikes of suppressed desires!!

No language for me!

Bury me the last scream in the coat of waiting

Remove my hand from the wrist of defiance

and grant my mouth a kiss of victory..!

TAGHRID BOU MERHI 

A Lebanese multilingual poet, writer, journalist and translator living in Brasil. She has authored 21 books, a translator of 24 books to date, a presenter of 25 books, and she participated in more than 60 Arabic books and more than 75 anthology internacional. She is an advisory member among ten internacional poetry consultants chosen by Chinese media giant CCTV.Lebanese ambassador in the International Fellowship for Creativity and Humanities, England-London.Her poems have been translated into 47 languages.