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

TASMANIA

 -1-

Stay the rock

Which is mounted as a shrine

The one I'm burning candles for

And hymning a verse

Written with tears on my life's page

This world is probably overturned

Or your sea is heading up

I arrived to you with tired paths

Hungry and disgusted of hunger

O, Tasmania

Fill my pockets with red carob apples

Picking it is not allowed to people like me

-2-

Let me swim in your water

My feet drowned in the sands

The Pacific waves opened up

Their eyes met my eyes

O, Tasmania

The place, which was born

For summer and winter to meet

Don't say God processed his offering

Don't say He praised

Altar has to be in you

And I have to be the holy man

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