Letter From Under The Sea

By Nizar Qabbani

If you are my friend... Help me... to leave you Or if you are my lover... Help me... so I can be healed of you... If I knew.... that the ocean is very deep... I would not have swam... If I knew... how I would end, I would not have began I desire you...so teach me not to desire teach me... how to cut the roots of your love from the depths teach me... how tears may die in the eyes and love may commit suicide If you are prophet, Cleanse me from this spell Deliver me from this atheism... Your love is like atheism... so purify me from this atheism If you are strong... Rescueme from this ocean ForI don't know how to swim The blue waves... in your eyes drag me... to the depths blue... blue... nothingbut the color blue and I have no experience in love... and no boat... If I am dear to you then take my hand For I am filled with desire... from my head to my feet I am breathing under water! I am drowning... drowning... drowning...