{"id":7039,"date":"2026-03-02T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:20:52","slug":"824-i-cant-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/824-i-cant-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"824 | I CAN\u2019T LOVE YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7041 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Frans-Minnaert-nuages-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Frans-Minnaert-nuages-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Frans-Minnaert-nuages-200x115.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Frans-Minnaert-nuages.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by <strong>Frans Minnaert<\/strong>, collection Ithaca Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I Can\u2019t Love You\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I feel your beautiful heart,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I can sense all the romantic stars of the night,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I can\u2019t love you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because I am a man of sand,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Knowing only dryness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yes, I hear your sweet voice,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I see your beautiful face,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I can\u2019t love you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because I am a yellow man,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bearing only sorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Believe me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have immersed myself<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in every wonderful moment with you,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I can smell the fragrance of sea flowers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I can\u2019t love you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because I am merely the heartless remnants of a war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Anwer Ghani<\/strong>, Iraq<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Frans Minnaert, collection Ithaca Foundation &nbsp; I Can\u2019t Love You\u00a0 I feel your beautiful heart, And I can sense all the romantic stars of the night, But I can\u2019t love you Because I am a man of sand, Knowing only dryness. Yes, I hear your sweet voice, And I see your beautiful face, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}