Al Mahmood
The Golden Marriage contract(Excerpt)


   By the rains, my darling,
   by the brown-coloured grains in the field,
   by the fish and the meat we eat, 
   by the blessed cow heavy with mi8lk ,
   by the plough the scythe, the wind-blown full sail,
   I say, no poet ever toys with the heart,
   If I ever betray and besmear my tongue,
   please turn then into a lightning shaft
   and with the thunderbolt of dovorce pierce my heart.


   My kisses will always caress your body, my dear, free and unabashed,
   like a fleet of waves breaking against the tender breast
   of a duck floating on the dark waters of a river at night.
   If I ever act contrary to this. 
   then I swear by my passionate verse,
   let the fiercest curse of God befall me... 
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