Chrysantemum For you I am a chrysantemum

Supernova, urgent star



Astera Compositae For you I'll be a dandelion

A thousand flowerettes in the sky

Or just a drop in the ocean



If you know my name

don't speak it out

it holds a power - as before



Liliacea A lily of the valley

a flower of saron



Helianthus annus For you I even be a sunflower

Do you hear my enlightening laughter?

another reason to cut off an ear



You know my name, do you not?

don't say it

For it is sacred, immovable - frozen



Rosa, Anemone et Nymphea alba I'll even be a waterlily,

a marygold, a rose

or a little thistle



Euphorbia a blue dahlia, a black tulip

that's where opinions differ

the scholars disagree



My name, should you know it

remains unspeakable

and is spoken - malediction



[Last line in Libanese]


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