#The Wall of Fate, An Anchor for Hope#

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#The Wall of Fate, An Anchor for Hope#

I - The Unanswered Call

I sought your love, O light that flees from me,

A dawn idea upon night's lip to be.

My deep desire was a fragile-woven sail,

Whose canvas bled for love without a hail.

I tried to mend the fabric of my fate's design,

To wreck the bridges of uncertain "yours and mine."

Sowing the wait with an ever-trembling hand,

Until I sought my shadow, worn out on the land.

But the wind came not as a friend to keep the vow,

And the ocean, a calm mirror until now,

Arose like a deep pain that stirs within the heart.

And Destiny became a dark wall set apart.

II - The Obstacle and the Secret

The barriers of Fate stand, utterly unseen,

Hedges of sharp flint, somber, a forbidding scene,

Around the Paradise my yearning heart conceived.

An endless fortress by the Invisible achieved.

No tear can ever pierce this granite-hard stockade,

Nor bitter lament where the weary heart is made.

The Code remains concealed from my vain, dreaming will,

The hand of judgment breaks the chain, though soft and still.

It sends me to the cold corner of truth's stark might,

Where autumn of refusal reigns, void of light.

I turn my heart from hope, in sudden, hasty flight,

Gathering my remnants on the paths leading from the right.

III - The Grace of Surrender

No need to fight against the order everlasting,

But carve upon the dark blue sky, the solemn casting:

My heart has no other choice than wisdom sent from God.

Ah! What a final haven where my sad soul has trod!

This is the harbor calmed, the refuge glowing bright,

When earth is narrowed for the vision of our sight.

I tie my heart's desire to the Anchor of release,

Extinguishing the hells of my grim, tired unease.

For God, when He withholds, provides a grace unseen,

A subtle healing for a wound that might have been,

Which our blind love would never have perceived.

Glory to love transformed to Reason, now believed!

He is the Best, the One who knows the righteous end,

The only lasting bond when all desires must bend.

The True, Eternal Love, beyond all walls that rise.

The best part of the heart is the hope that never dies.

#NOUR EDDINE BALIGH#