Bilal Al Masry (Lebanon

Bilal Al Masri It’s not me

Nihility has no shadow that I follow it Your voice which amazes me I do not hear it The one who is standing between your hands If all the trees flowered If all the women delayed their autumn

Your favors would not be of any benefit to him Your voice that worries me I do not hear I am not the mount to send it back to you Nor am I the abyss to pass me by Without falling Inflict me so I may know your heart in my time The one who stands there is a mirage The one who sits here is not me I do not know where I am present or absent

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(Translated by Munir Mezyed)

Soft music…extreme delight The angels are dangling Heaven is waves The sea is at the top Tears fixate on tremendous joy Thus they pour down

Word is a high wall I ascend to the meaning with all my senses Heaven is in our small chamber The bed is bed suffocating

I open the goblets of tales Pour the sun in your cup Your small breast enters the lungs Overlooking my heart For a moment every thing stops evolving I row with the two thighs Insert my heart into your clothes I hear your voice a wolf attacking me Reside…Reside!

My years are grass for the horses of dreams

My heart is bread and my blood your outpouring heart I hear your voice a wolf Reside…Reside! Flaming fire of nostalgia Wind passed by the lake of meaning Thus the mirrors of visions quacked I see you in everything

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Bilal Al-Masry is a Lebanese poet and playwright, born in 1974. His in Poetry: The Atm of Mirrors, published by Dar Al-Konouz Al-Adabi in Beirut 2004 Jasmine rose like bullets issued by Dar El Ghawoun Beirut 2012 As light as oil, issued by the Beirut Publications Company in 2014 Your names are many and our bread is little issued by Dar Al-Watan Today, Algeria, in 2020 Among his theatrical works are "Tooret so I will not disappear," "A trip to Mars" "The boats", the screaming of the corpse winner of the prize for the best theatrical text within the activities of the Sidi Kassem International Festival in Morocco. Of his fictional works, the walls are striking my shadow. Among his fictional works: The Walls Exposed to My Shadow, published by the Cairo Hallways Foundation, 2013 He participated in many international evenings and festivals in Lebanon and abroad.