I wanted to write you a letter
my love
a letter that would tell
of the desire
to see you
of the fear
i feel
of this more than benevolence that i feel
of the indefinable ill that pursues me
of this yearning to which i live in total surrender........
I wanted to write you a letter
my love,
a letter of intimate secreats
a letter of memories of you,
of you
of your lips red a henna
of your indicriminate eyes sweet as honey
of your breats hard as wild orange
of your lynx gait
and of your caresses
such that i can find no better here....
i wanted to write you a letter
my love,
that would put in to sound my thoughts,
of days in our haunts
of nights lost in the long grass
that would recall the shade falling on us from the plum trees
the moon fitering through the endless palm trees
that would recall the madness
of our passion
and the bitterness of our seperation....
i wanted to write you a letter
my love,
that you would not read without sighing
that you would hide from papa
that you would hide from mama
that you would re-read without the coldness of forgetting
a letter to which in all somalia
no other would stand comparison....
i wanted to write you a letter
my love
a letter that would be brought to you by the passing wind
a letter that the cashews and coffee trees
the aligators and grayling
could understand
so that if the wind should lose it on the way
the beasts and plants
with pity for our sharp suffering
from song to song
lament to lament
gabble to gabble
would bring you pure and hot
the burrning words of the letter
i wanted to write to my love.....
but though you are beutifull you are hard
so let every nomad urge my case
for i fear
i fear
i can argue it no more.