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Naji Naaman [Lebanon]

            An-Najiyyat              9   I am the newborn, the teenager, The old man, the everlastingness, I am the father, the fatigue, The mother, the harvest   I am the inanimate, the eventful, The cultivations, the crop, I am the good, the gift, The evil, the misery   I am love, compassion, Hatred, unhappiness, I am hope, expectations, Fortune, destiny   I am thought, truth, Faith, the covet, I am the seeing, the seeable, And any star that shoots   I am life, death, The being, the non-being, I am God, immortality, The all, the nothing   I am Man                                2000   (Translated from Arabic by Celia Din)   (from “The Hymns”) (from “The Dreamer”)         What a waste of time   Letting oursel...