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How the longing one awakes from his drunkenness

كيف يصحو من سكره مشتاق

1. How the longing one awakes from his drunkenness
In a crescent, horizons long for it

١. كَيْفَ يَصْحُو من سُكرِه مُشْتاقُ
في هِلالٍ تَشتاقُهُ الآفاقُ

2. Its glance tasked me with patience until
What cannot be endured became an imposed task

٢. كَلَّفَتْنِي لِحاظُهُ الصَّبْرَ حتَّى
جَازَ عِنْدي تَكْلِيفُ مالا يُطاق

3. The critics blamed it when they saw it
A purse-idol that has flavors for me in its secrets

٣. عابَ مِنْهُ اللُّحاةُ لَمّا رأَوْهُ
سُمْرَةً لي في سِرِّها أذواقُ

4. And claimed it was darkness in my heart
Far it is! It is an illumination

٤. وادَّعوا أنَّها ظَلامٌ بقَلْبي
حاشَ لله إنَّها إشراقُ

5. They stared into it until
Their gazes shook off its dye

٥. هُمْ أجالُوا لِحاظَهُمْ فِيهِ حتَّى
نَفَضتْ فِيهِ صِبْغَها الأحداقُ