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“[Lights]

The lights of churches and monasteries,
of Christmas trees
and radiant mosques.
Dim lights
glowing in warm houses
in foreign cities
where I wandered alone.
The lights of distant cars
moving across bridges,
seen from hotel windows
on clear, moonlit nights.
The light of candles
and lanterns.
The lights of tiny shops
hidden in ancient, forgotten lanes.
The lights of ships
sailing toward destinations
I shall never reach.
The lights of streetlamps
on dark, rain-soaked winter nights.
The lights of remote beacons
and unseen fishermen.
The faint glow
I once caught
in the eyes of kind strangers
in places
tourists never visit.
I loved every one of those lights.
Now they undo me,
because they remind me
of the beautiful light
in your eyes
that has been extinguished.

13 November 2024”
― Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]