ام كلثوم - الأطلال My heart, dont ask where the love has gone It was a citadel of my imagination that has collapsed Pour me a drink and let us drink of its ruins And tell the story on my behalf as long as the tears flow Tell how that love became past news And became another story of passion I havent forgotten you And you seduced me with a sweetly-calling and tender tongue And a hand extending towards me like a hand stretched out through the waves to a drowning person You seduced me with the saliva (of a kiss) that a night traveler thirsts for But where is that light in your eyes? My darling, I visited your nest one day as a bird of desire singing my pain Youve become self-important, spoiled and capricious And you inflict harm like a powerful tyrant And my longing for you cauterized my ribs (soul or insides) And the waiting was like embers in my blood Give me my freedom, release my hands Indeed, Ive given you yours and did not try to retain anything Ah, your chains have bloodied my wrists I havent kept then nor have they spared me Why do I keep promises that you do not honor? When will this captivity end, when the world is before us? He is far away, my enchanting love Full of pride, majesty and delicacy Sure-footed walking like an angel with oppressive beauty and rapacious glory Redolent of charm like the breeze of the hills Pleasant to experience like the nights dreams Ive lost forever the charm of your company that radiated brilliantly I, wandering in love, a bewildered butterfly, approached you And between us, desire was a messenger and drinking companion that presented the cup to us Had love seen two as intoxicated as us? So much hope we had built up around us And we walked in the moonlit path, joy skipping along ahead of us And we laughed like two children together And we ran and raced our shadows And we became aware after the euphoria and woke up If only we did not awaken Wakefulness ruined the dreams of slumber The night came and the night became my only friend And then the light was an omen of the sunrise and the dawn was towering over like a conflagration And then the world was as we know it, with each lover in their own path Oh sleepless one who slumbers and remembers the promise when you wake up Know that if a wound begins to recover another wound crops up with the memory So learn to forget and learn to erase it My darling everything is fated It is not by our hands that we make our misfortune Perhaps one day our fates will cross when our desire to meet is strong enough For if one friend denies the other and we meet as strangers And if each of us follows his or her own way Dont say it was by our own will But rather, the will of fate يا فؤادي لا تسل أين الهوى كان صرحا من خيال فهوى اسقني واشرب على أطلاله واروعني طالما الدمع روى كيف ذاك الحب أمسى خبرا وحديثا من أحاديث الهوى لست أنساك وقد أغريتني بفم عذب المنادة رقيق ويد تمد نحوي كيد من خلال الموج مدت لغريق وبريق يظمأ الساري له أين في عينيك نياك البريق ياحبيبا زرت يوما أيكه طائر الشوق أغنى ألمي لك إبطاء المذل المنعم وتجني القادر المحتكم و حنيني لك يكوي أضلعي والتواني جمرات في دمي أعطني حريتي أطلق يدي ا إنني أعطيتك ما استبقيت شيئا آه من قيدك أدمى معصمي لم أبقيه وما أبقى عليا ما احتفاظي بعهود لم تصنها وإلام الأسر والدنيا لد يا أين من عيني حبيب ساحر فيه عز وجلال وحياء واثق الخطوة يمشي ملكا ظالم الحسن شهي الكبرياء عبق السحر كأنفاس الربى ساهم الطرف كأحلام المساء أين مني مجلس أنت به فتنتة تمت سناء وسنى وأنا حب و قلب هائم وفراش حائر منك دنا ومن الشوق رسول بيننا ونديم قدم الكاس لنا هل رأى الحب سكارى مثلنا كم بنينا من خيال حولنا ومشينا في طريق مقمر تثب الفرحة فبه قلبنا وضحكنا ضحك طفلين معا وعدونا فسبقنا ظلنا وانتبهنا بعد ما زال الرحيق وأفقنا ليت أنا لانفبق يقظة طاحت بأحلام الكرى وتولى الليل والليل صديق وإذا النور نذير طالع وإذا الفجر مطال كالحريق وإذا الدنيا كما تعرفها وإذ ا الأحباب كل فب طريق أيها الساهر تغفو تذكر العهد وتصحو وإذا ما الأم جرح جد بالتذكار جرح فتعلم كيف تنيى وتعلم كيف تمحو يا حبيبي كل شيء بقضاء ما بأيدينا خلقنا تعساء ربما تجمعنا أقدارنا ذات يوم بعدما عز اللقاء فإذا انكر خل خله وتلاقينا لقاء الغرباء ومضى كل إلى غايته لاتقل شئنا فإن الحظ شاء
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:45:41 +0000