Book 08 · The Ache of Distance
Haka Lhob
هاكا الحب
Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.
From the song
Haka Lhob هاكا الحب by SNX
A Moroccan and English song that keeps asking what love is. In the Moroccan verses she has left without warning, and he wants to know where this love is, whether love exists at all, and he does not know what to ask of God. He swears it is a truth, though others said love had thrown him down. She walked away while still beside him, and he asks that the two of them not make love an ugly thing, and that God give them more of each other. The English section turns the question around: what does love mean, is it just another fantasy, have you ever really been in love? Then comes the offer to show her another place and what it really is. The title is repeated, and every time it ends in the plain statement: this is love.
Deeper meaning
The song begins as a lament and ends as an invitation. First he doubts that love is real, then he offers to demonstrate it. The title phrase, "this is how love is", can be read as a shrug and as a promise, and the song uses both.