The Rope

Orfeu, de Jean Cocteau (1950)

Thus spoke Abdullah to me
The foreign things are to your right
And to your left the foreign things
For you dance upon a rope
And he spoke
The question blocks the question
Just as the answer the answer
For you dance upon a rope
And he spoke
Neither is the East the East
Nor the West the West in you
For you dance upon a rope
And he spoke
Shut your eyes
And run as fast as you can run
For you dance upon a rope

Adel Karasholi