Nizar Qabbani
(A Letter to a Man)
(1)
My dear Master,
This is a letter from a stupid woman
Has a stupid woman before me, written to you?
My name? Lets put names aside
Rania, or Zaynab
or Hind or Hayfa
When I love
I feel that I am the king of time
I possess the earth and everything on it
and ride into the sun upon my horse.
I become liquid light
invisible to the eye
and the poems in my notebooks
