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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.37,0:00:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Damascene Poem\NNizar Qabbani
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.92,0:00:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Damascus
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.76,0:00:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Damascus\NAnd this is a glass of spirit (comfort)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.61,0:00:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am in love – but I am aware of the fact\NThat certain kinds of love\NCan slaughter you in wrath
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.07,0:00:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a Damascene if you dissect me into halves\NYou will have but grapes and apples falling in your path
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.52,0:00:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a Damascene if you dissect me into halves\NYou will have but grapes and apples falling in your path
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.90,0:01:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open my veins with scalpels\NHear ancestral chants
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.35,0:01:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If heart transplants can \NCure some of the passionate\NWhy does mine stay torn in half then?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.38,0:01:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Minarets crying tears of absence when hugging me\NAnd like trees their souls speak
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.02,0:02:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For civil rights to live amongst tiers of jasmine\NAs house cats take naps relaxing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.89,0:02:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coffee grinders crackling\NChildhood reminders – back\NHow can I forget?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.09,0:02:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my reaction to cardamoms’ strong fragrance \Nyet and still finds attraction
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.97,0:02:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As proud fathers wait\NFor a sweet daughter’s face
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am asking\NIf my roots, heart and language are here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.96,0:02:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How am I supposed to make myself any more clear?\NIs clarification necessary\NWith love so dear?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.58,0:02:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am asking\NIf my roots, heart and language are here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.58,0:03:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How am I supposed to make myself any more clear?\NIs clarification necessary\NWith love so dear?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.39,0:03:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many Damascene bracelets were\NSold for this poetry here?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.22,0:03:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apologising to the willow\NWondering if my little siblings can hear
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.81,0:03:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My parts have been scattered across coasts of years\NLanterns on horizons floating
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.73,0:03:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tossed around in shore-less oceans\NOnly to be haunted down by devils and demonic ghosts
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.23,0:04:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I battle ugliness with my poetry and prose\NUntil nawar and beauty open to them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.23,0:04:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Identity of Arabness resembling a widow though\NIs there no happiness for the rest of us history books can show?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.57,0:04:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will remain of poetry’s originality if so\NMany liars and deceivers get to have complete control?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.26,0:04:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are we ever going to write a verse\NWith locks over our mouths?\NAnd when killers still approach?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.62,0:04:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bore the burden of my words upon my back until I grieved\NWhat shall remain of poetry when it is finally relieved?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.88,0:05:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Damascene Poem\NNizar Qabbani