The Most Beautiful Love

from Fall of the Moon by Marcel Khalife

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As grass sprouts in the joints of a stone
as two strangers we came to be
when the spring sky was authoring stars
and I was composing a phrase of love
to sing for your eyes

Do your eyes know that I've waited a long
while
as a summer bird waits?
And that I've slept as an emigrant sleeps
with one eye resting
for the other to remain awake?

We're two friends
so walk beside me hand in hand
together we'll bake bread and write songs
we are lovers until the moon sleeps

I love you as caravans love an oasis
some water and grass
and as a poor man loves a loaf of bread.
We'll always stay friends

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from Fall of the Moon, released April 9, 2012

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Marcel Khalife Houston, Texas

Marcel Khalifé is a composer, Oud master & performer. Marcel's creativity, innovations, and humanitarian concerns along with contributions to the promotion of arts and Culture in the Arab world has earned him tens of awards in the Arab World and Internationally. ... more

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