I wrote the name of the one I loved by Nizar Kabbani

I wrote the name of the one I loved
On the wind.
I wrote the name of the one I loved
On the water.
But the wind is a bad listener,
The water does not remember names.

translated by Bassam K. Frangieh & Clementina R. Brown

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