There are so many kinds of love! So many words in so many different languages. Here is a short poem about different kinds of love in Arabic by Philip Metres, who recently graced Gasson Hall with a reading:
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because there is a word for love in this tongue
that entwines two people as one
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& there is a word for love in this tongue
that nests in the chambers of the heart
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& a word for love in this tongue that wanders
the earth, for love in this tongue in which you lose
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yourself in this tongue & a word that carries
sorrow within its vowels & a word for love
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that exudes from your pores & a word
for love that shares its name with falling
–Philip Metres, from Shrapnel Maps