Avoid those deceitful walls

Avoid those deceitful walls,
no one like you had such a face
treacherously set off limits
for the freshness of sea
and your caring hands.

Trust the foreign eyes
that saw the hurrying
ribbons of your voice.

Believe in this ordinary day,
in its exquisite potential,
uniting sky, water and the silence
of the storm aftermath,
landscaping anew deceptive past time.

Anwar Al-Ghassani
San José, Sunday, August 08, 2004