You and I .. Tunisia .. we were the secret

Tunisia, my most beautiful lady

When the sun lights up the sea ...

Tunisia, you are

The one who taught me that poetry

Will laugh more

When it goes crazy with the light of the full moon ...

You read me

Deeper than anyone reads me, you do

You are the perfect Andalusia

And like Damascus

Like Baghdad

Like Amman

Like Beirut...

And like Jerusalem

Like the first Cairo

Or

A desert that sparkles classical Arabic

A letter that shines like pearls

Hannibal, Carthage, and my heart

And fingers glimpsed by my soul

If time gets lost

It restores life ..

In Tunisia, I adore my names

I adore lovers of my country

I adore them very much

Until victory...

You ... and I

Oh laughing one

Coming from the eyelashes of dawn...

Running in the flow of the river...

You and I

And our poems

And the colors

And the Phoenician

And the eye of the rock...

You... and I

We were the secret....

One day I brought a complete day

With me bells and minarets...

Announcing that the Mediterranean

Sails in it

A free man....

Islam Alqamm

Amman 26-4-2022

The painting by artist Nour Melhem was specially drawn to the rhythm of the poem

Nour Melhem