put on your best coat, love -
come, we're going to the wind.
is it when she sorrows
she wails and clasps the trees
is it when she wonders
she whispers to the seas
in fury does she tear her hair
and strip away the leaves
she crashes down the ocean and
she screams, she screams, she screams...
no, the wind is but a word
the weight within her name
between the kaaf and nuun contained
our fingers sweep the rivulets
our palms cushion the rain
put on your best coat, love -
come, we're going to the wind.
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*kaaf and nuun: two letters of the Arabic alphabet, phonetically equivalent to "K" and "N". Put together, they form the word kun - "Be". The Originator is He of the heavens and the earth: and when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, "Be" -and it is[al-Baqarah:117]
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