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Balad to a Naive Girl

You said that everything would work out for you alright
like in the books you read at school
everyone told you 'you are a heavenly couple' -
now the heavens are empty, in the meantime
 
Four in the morning, the dawn breaks forth
thinking maybe he will show up anyways
put on the kettle, light another cigarette
on the radio songs to close the night
 
A day comes and a day goes
and you remain
naive as you were before. (x2)
 
Dreaming by the stove and embroidering
crosses and lines for your child's shirt
your man, who knows where he is
drinks and escapes like Elijah1
 
In the morning you will go out in a robe to shake
the Cyprus tree that sheds a drop of the shining night
from afar you will see a drunk man running to you
and again you will open your arms to him...
 

• 1. the Jewish Prophet who visits and then leaves Passover Seders