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Book 02 · Light of My Life

Jeet

جيت

Tender

Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.

From the song

Jeet جيت by SNX

A lavish praise song whose title means I came. The singer says he came to her with gentleness, and that his tenderness was led astray until he saw her in front of him, sweet as sugar. In his eyes she is a paradise, with beauty, every kind of fruit, honey, grape syrup and saffron. A mirror is jealous when she looks into it. The sun in the sky will not hide its day. She is his sun, his strength, the most beautiful person, and he asks where he would go without her. A chorus of my eye is on you closes it, in the way people say it to someone they cannot stop looking at.

Deeper meaning

The song is built on the classical device of piling up sweetness. Paradise is described as food and scent, which makes the love bodily and generous at once. The arrival in the title is the quiet centre: he came, he did not summon her, and the song is the account of what he found.