Shawqak
شوقك
Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.
From the song
Shawqak شوقك by SNX
A Levantine song that plays on a word. Longing and thorn are written almost the same way in Arabic, and the captions give the thorn. You are a thorn, he says. I want to forget my life with you. My heart bleeds into the tent. Why did lying come into my life? I began to forget from the day you introduced me to someone else. Remind me, your voice hurts, a moon of desire. The refrain is that she is a thorn, said again and again.
Deeper meaning
The title says longing for you, and the captions say thorn, so the song can be heard as longing as a thorn. A love that came with deceit becomes a splinter that cannot be pulled out. The wish to forget is undone by the fact that her voice is what he asks to hear.
Book 06 · After You Left