A love song to Australia is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Paul Abdul Ahad

SURFERS PARADISE

-1-

Your name is Paradise

Your beach is heaven

Your sun is wooing another sun

And your sand is resonant

On its sound

Whispering becomes exciting

Purified raw-gold

Yellow

Brown

Where beauty loves to be encompassed

-2-

Surfers

You're turning me mad

In you

I'd like to be forever locked up

Your wave

Oh

Comes out of my mouth

It takes away spirit

And gives back another

-3-

I visited you with Abla once

She didn't want to come back home

She fell in love with you

And that love destroyed my heart

The word (if only)

Wasn't of use anymore

I was so jealous

And when I become as such

My blood boils and burns like oil

You have visitors everyday

Don't say you only admired her

Give my Abla back

And put down the fire

I admired her long before you did

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