ุชุฒููุฌุชูู ุฑุบู
ุฃููู ุงููุจููุฉู
ูุณุงูุฑุชู ู
ุนู
ุฑุบู
ุงูู ุงููุจููุฉู
ูุฃุนุทุชููู ุฒููุจู ูุนูู
ูุฑู
ุฑุบู
ุฃูู ุงููุจููุฉู
ูุนูุฏู
ุง ููุชู ุฃุณุฃูููุง : ูู
ุงุฐุงุ
ูุงูุช ุชุฃุฎูุฐููู ูุงูุทูู ุฅูู ุตุฏุฑูุง
ูุชูุชูู
ูุชูู
ู ูุฃููู ุงูุช ูุจููุชู
she married me, in spite of the tribe
and she traveled with me, in spite of the tribe
and she gave me zaynab and omar, in spite of the tribe
and when I used to ask her why
she would take me, like a child, against her chest
and say โbecause you are my tribeโ
ุงูุฏู ูู
ุฑุงู ูุงุญุนูููุง ูุชูุงูุฃ
ู
ุง ุงุญุณูู ุฑุจ ุชุจุงุฑู ูุชุนุงูู
ูุฏ ุญู ุจุฑูุญู ูุชุฏุงุนูุช ุญูุงุฉ
ูุงูููู
ูุฃู ุนูู ุนุฒุงู ูุฌุงูุงู
ุงุฏุนูู ุณุฑุงุฑุงู ูุงูุงุฏูู ุฌูุงุฑุงู
ุงู ุงุจุฏูู ุงูุตุจูุฉ ุทููุงู ูุฎูุงูุงู
ูู ูุทุนูู ุฏูุฑู ูุง ุฒุงุช ุงูุงุฏู
ูู ุชุฎุชุฑู ุงูุญุฌุจ ููุฑููู ูุตูุงู
ูุง ู
ู ู
ู ุงูุนุดู ูู ู
ุฑ ูุฑูู
ุญุงุดุงู ู
ููุงู ุจู ุญุงุดุงู ู
ููุงู
ุงูุนุงุดู ุญูุช ูููู ุงูุนุดู ูุจุญุฑ
ูู ู
ู ุฅุฐุง ู
ุง ุณูู ุงูุญูุจ ุฒูุงูุงูุ
Yes! My soul will be sacrificed for you!ย
You are the full moon. You rise, and you shine.ย
Praised and glorified be God for that shine!ย
You invaded my soul, doubled my life.ย
Then, you leftโwith that noble pride of thine.ย
Today, I pray to you in secret, orย
I shout out loud these mad love dreams of mine.ย
Life tears me to pieces, and still I shout:ย
Pierce through these veils! Let me drink your loveโs wine!ย
Centuries of loving, and heโs neverย
bored with love. Never will his love decline.ย
My lover is a whale, and my desireย
pure waterโan oceanโwith no end time.ย
Can a whale grow bored in a pure ocean?
โ jalal ad-din muhammad rumi
I love you
as if all hearts were a mirror of mine
as if life were invented for my love
I love you
O how much I deleted from your lips
built my heart into a road and a house
hung it as a cloud over clouds
and how I equated beauty with you and her fantasy sprout
and how and how
I love you
the light in your eyes has withdrawn
it has been flooded
our hair like drifts of snow poured on your shoulders
braided, tied or loose
I feel time has melted in my eyelids
solidified and tumbled
like silence.
Your eyes are two palm tree forests in early light,
Or two balconies from which the moonlight recedes
When they smile, your eyes, the vines put forth their leaves,
And lights dance โฆ like moons in a river
Rippled by the blade of an oar at break of day;
As if stars were throbbing in the depths of them โฆ
And they drown in a mist of sorrow translucent
Like the sea stroked by the hand of nightfall;
The warmth of winter is in it, the shudder of autumn,
And death and birth, darkness and light;
A sobbing flares up to tremble in my soul
And a savage elation embracing the sky,
Frenzy of a child frightened by the moon.
It is as if archways of mist drank the clouds
And drop by drop dissolved in the rain โฆ
As if children snickered in the vineyard bowers,
The song of the rain
Rippled the silence of birds in the trees โฆ
Drop, drop, the rain
Drip
Drop the rain
โย badr shakir al-sayyabย