Sol 6.1

  1. عَينُ مَن هذِهِ الَّتي لا تَنامُ

    هيَ عَينٌ ضِياؤُها الآثامُ

    Whose is this eye that does not sleep?

    It is an eye with sins for its light.

  2. آلَمَته ذِكرى فَتاةَ وَفي عَينَيهِ

    من أَمسِهِ الأَثيمِ حِطامُ

    The memory of a girl pained him, and in his eyes

    Lay wreckage from his sinful yesterday.

  3. وَعلى الشاطىءِ الكَئيبِ قَتامٌ

    وَعَلى صُورَ وَحشةٌ وَقَتامُ

    And on the gloomy shore was a dark haze,

    And over Tyre, desolation and dark haze.

  4. حاوَل النَومَ غير أَن طُيوفاً

    جاوَرَت عَينَه وَفيها اِنتِقامُ

    He tried to sleep, but phantoms

    Dwelt beside his eye, with vengeance in them.

  5. فَنَبا عَن فِراشِهِ كَأَثيمِ

    أَيقَظَته من نَومِهِ الأَحلامُ

    So he recoiled from his bed like a sinner

    Whom dreams had awakened from his sleep.

  6. إِنَّ عَينَ الأَثيمِ جُرحٌ عَميقٌ

    قَذِرُ الجانِبَينِ لا يَلتامُ

    Indeed, the sinner's eye is a deep wound,

    Filthy on both sides, it does not heal.

  7. وَتَراءَت لَهُ مَجاري الوادي

    كَسَرير يَغيمُ في الأَبعادِ

    And the valley's watercourses appeared to him

    Like a bed growing dim in the distance.

  8. فَبَكى ذاكِراً عُذوبَةَ ماضيهِ

    وَحبّا مَضى مَعَ الاِورادِ

    So he wept, recalling the sweetness of his past

    And a love that passed away with the roses.

  9. قالَ ما حَلَّ بِاللَيالي الخَوالي

    كَيفَ عائَت بِها يَدُ الجَلّادِ

    He said, “What befell the nights gone by?

    How did the executioner's hand ravage them?”

  10. وَتَلَوّى يَصيحُ وَيحَ ضَميري

    لَيسَ هذا الجَلّاد إِلّا فُؤادي

    And he writhed, crying, “Alas for my conscience!

    This executioner is none other than my heart.

  11. طَرَحتكَ السَماءُ عن قَلبِ غَلواءَ

    كَفَرعٍ رِجسٍ من الأَجسادِ

    Heaven cast you out of Ghalwa's heart

    Like a foul branch from bodies.

  12. خائِنَ الحُبِّ ان حُبَّكَ دونٌ

    فَاِحتَجَب فيهِ عن عُيون العِبادِ

    Betrayer of love, your love is indeed base;

    So hide within it from the eyes of men!”

  13. ثُمَّ سادَت سَكينَةٌ وَتَوارَت

    جُزُرُ النورِ في الفَضاء الرَمادي

    Then stillness prevailed, and vanished

    The islands of light in the gray expanse.

  14. لَم بَرَ الفَجرَ غاسِلاً بضياهُ

    هَضابِ المَدينَةِ المَردومَه

    He did not see the dawn washing with its light

    The hills of the buried city,

  15. وَقِبابَ الأَبراجِ يوقِظُها النورُ

    كَجِنِّ عَلى قُبورٍ قَديمَه

    And the towers' domes, which the light awakens,

    Like jinn upon ancient graves.

  16. فَرَّ لَم يَلتَفِت كَشَعبِ سَدومٍ

    حينَما أَحرَقَ الإِلهُ سَدومَة

    He fled without turning back, like the people of Sodom

    When God burned Sodom.

  17. مُزجَ النورُ بِالدُجى حينَ خَطَّ الفَجرُ

    في صَفحَةِ السَماءِ رُسومَه

    Light was mingled with darkness when dawn traced

    Its outlines upon the sky's page,

  18. كَضَميرِ الأَثيمِ يَشمِلُهُ الصَفحُ

    وَتَبقى من وَخزِهِ جُرثومه

    Like a sinner's conscience, which forgiveness enfolds,

    While a germ of its sting remains.

  19. فَأَطَلَّت غَلواءُ من كُوَّةِ الخِدرِ

    وَفي نَفسِها شُجونٌ عَظيمَه

    Then Ghalwa looked out from the chamber's small window,

    And in her soul were great sorrows.

  20. قالَت الفَجرُ شاحِبٌ مِثلُ وَجهي

    وَأَليمٌ ساهٍ كَنَفسي الأَليمَه

    She said, “The dawn is pale like my face,

    And aching, distracted, like my aching soul.

  21. أَيُّها العُمرُ كم تَعُدُّ صَباحاً

    بَعدُ لي في أَيّامِكَ المَحطومَه

    O life, how many mornings do you count

    Still for me among your shattered days?”