In the dark allies of her eyes
I read the history of a black rose
Still your petrol scent haunting me
My beautiful Saudi princess
That night while breaking taboos
I made love to your sword like figure
You whispered in a real ‘Bedouin’ voice
See, there is always a way
To break the tribal rule
They managed to cover your date like body
Assimilate you into a black mummy
But you remained a very proud female
Like an arrogant palm tree, standing tall
Where only free birds can nest
Your forces of nature
Proved stronger than their hate
And your love
Remains deeper than their reach
Stay with me tonight under your ‘abaya’
Hide me
Between your face cover and your face
Because memories burn greater than fires
I will burn you in my soul,
Like an Arabic tattoo
This is your desert
And this sand is your color
You are the princess of the thugs,
Bilqis of Sheba
The true owner of the camel,
The moon and the poem
Possessor of the black sun and cover
They tried to exterminate you
Beneath your ‘niquab’
But they forgot that wraps
Create perfect hiding places
Neither duchesses of Bavaria nor princesses of Bourbon
had that luxury
So, I will hide with you between your eye and its lashes
Just make love to me tonight and break all the tribal rules
Because Adam had nothing to do with your creation
And only from your womb I came
And only to it I like to return
Let oases spring open from your arid land
Permit me to revive your black petals
Allow a rainbow at last to come to live and
Make peace with mirages for ages to come
Thousands of years without rights or choices
Thousands of nights and you are still standing,
Right where you started
Aren’t your bare feet tired of stillness?!!
Shahrazad, flee the harshness of the ‘Imam’
These golden chains and doctrines in vain
Because you are, my lovely,
The true princess of the night
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